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title: "Writhe away or not as you please," thought the poor man, "but pay m… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Writhe away or not as you please," thought the poor man, "but pay me my copeck!" Who acts: you, poor man. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, 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 6, sentence 107

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"Writhe away or not as you please," thought the poor man, "but pay me my copeck!"

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**Who acts:** you, poor man · **What happens:** writhe away, not think, pay · **To what, where:** copeck, poor man · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, poor man), 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:pg22373:16:107
# text = "Writhe away or not as you please," thought the poor man, "but pay me my copeck!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Writhe	writhe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	pay	pay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	copeck	copeck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **writhe away** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past | the poor man |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pay** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | my copeck | the poor man *= man* |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient copeck=Asset |

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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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