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description: If you're always going to treat me to promises,[63] there'll be no getting anything out of you. Who acts: you, anything. 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 184

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If you're always going to treat me to promises,\[63\] there'll be no getting anything out of you.

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**Who acts:** you, anything · **What happens:** go, treat, be, get · **To what, where:** me, 63

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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, anything), 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:pg22373:16:184
# text = If you're always going to treat me to promises,[63] there'll be no getting anything out of you.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	treat	treat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	promises	promise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	63	63	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
19	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	nsubj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **treat** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | to promises | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme to promise=be' |
| 3 | **be** | future | anything | 63 |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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