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title: Husband dear! tie me up in a bag, and put me out there where the cor… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Husband dear! tie me up in a bag, and put me out there where the corn-sacks are." Who acts: you, corn sacks. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 112

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Husband dear! tie me up in a bag, and put me out there where the corn-sacks are."

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**Who acts:** you, corn sacks · **What happens:** husband, tie up, put, be · **To what, where:** me, bag

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, corn sacks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:15:112
# text = Husband dear! tie me up in a bag, and put me out there where the corn-sacks are."
1	Husband	husband	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
4	tie	tie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	ccomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	sacks	sack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **husband** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dear *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tie up** | infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  | a bag |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | me | there |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Goal |
| 4 | **is** | present | the corn sacks |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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