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title: "Pray take it, master! only if you lose it, I shan't let you off che… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Pray take it, master! only if you lose it, I shan't let you off cheap." Who acts: Pray, you, merchant. 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 12

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"Pray take it, master! only if you lose it, I shan't let you off cheap."

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**Who acts:** Pray, you, merchant · **What happens:** take, lose, not let off · **To what, where:** cat, you

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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 (Pray, you, merchant), 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:pg22373:16:12
# text = "Pray take it, master! only if you lose it, I shan't let you off cheap."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Pray	Pray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	sha	sha	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	cheap	cheap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | Pray | cat |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument it=Theme master=Destination |
| 2 | **lose** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | cat |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **let off** *in a quote* |  | the merchant *= merchant* | you |  |  |  | cheap *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

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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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