--- title: He looked at it for some time and considered, "Why should I live in… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: He looked at it for some time and considered, "Why should I live in torment with a bad wife? can't I put her into that pit? can't I teach her a good lesson?" Who acts: proverb, thief. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/48/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/) / 48 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 48 He looked at it for some time and considered, "Why should I live in torment with a bad wife? can't I put her into that pit? can't I teach her a good lesson?" **Who acts:** proverb, thief · **What happens:** look, consider, live, not put, not teach · **To what, where:** torment, wife, pit, good lesson 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 (proverb, thief), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:15:48 # text = He looked at it for some time and considered, "Why should I live in torment with a bad wife? can't I put her into that pit? can't I teach her a good lesson?" 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 7 det _ _ 7 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 considered consider VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 13 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 torment torment NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ? ? PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ 23 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 24 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 27 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 30 pit pit NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ? ? PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ _ 32 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 33 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 teach teach VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 36 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 lesson lesson NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | proverb | | | | time | at bush | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | | 2 | **consider** | past | proverb *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **live** *in a quote* | should | thief | | | torment | | with a bad wife | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in torment=Location | | 4 | **not** **put** *in a quote* | can | thief | | wife | that pit | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal | | 5 | **not** **teach** *speech: other* *in a quote* | can | thief | a good lesson | wife | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient lesson=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/49/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. 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