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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 45

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"Now then, wife," perhaps he would say, "I feel quite sorry for you; don't go toiling and moiling, and don't go out to the hay cutting."

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** say, feel, not go, toil, moil, not go out · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (wife), 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:pg22373:15:45
# text = "Now then, wife," perhaps he would say, "I feel quite sorry for you; don't go toiling and moiling, and don't go out to the hay cutting."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
8	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
16	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
24	toiling	toil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	moiling	moil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
32	out	out	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	cutting	cutting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | wife |  |  |  | then | perhaps *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **feel** *in a quote* | present | wife |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **toil** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **moil** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **go out** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the hay cutting; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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