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title: "They're telling lies! we're carrying money; here, just take a look… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "They're telling lies! we're carrying money; here, just take a look at it." Who acts: simpletons, we. 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 202

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"They're telling lies! we're carrying money; here, just take a look at it."

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**Who acts:** simpletons, we · **What happens:** tell, carry, take · **To what, where:** lies, money, look · **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 (simpletons, we), 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:pg22373:16:202
# text = "They're telling lies! we're carrying money; here, just take a look at it."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
10	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	just	just	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · progressive | simpletons *= simpleton* | lies |  | here |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **carry** *in a quote* | present · progressive | we | money |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | simpletons *= simpleton* *not said here* | a look |  | look |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent look=Theme at it=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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