--- title: I'll make the beastie stand on his hind legs while I hold him up by… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: I'll make the beastie stand on his hind legs while I hold him up by his forelegs, and you shall pile gold pieces around him, so as just to hide him--I shall be content with that!" Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTO --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/23/) [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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/) / 23 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 23 I'll make the beastie stand on his hind legs while I hold him up by his forelegs, and you shall pile gold pieces around him, so as just to hide him--I shall be content with that!" **Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** make, hold up, pile, hide, be · **To what, where:** beastie stand, hind legs, orphan, gold pieces 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 (I, you), 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:pg22373:16:23 # text = I'll make the beastie stand on his hind legs while I hold him up by his forelegs, and you shall pile gold pieces around him, so as just to hide him--I shall be content with that!" 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 beastie beastie NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 stand stand NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 hind hind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 11 while while SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 forelegs foreleg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 pile pile VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 24 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 around around ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 just just ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 -- -- PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 cop _ _ 39 content content ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | future | I | the beastie stand | | orphan's hind legs | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stand=Product | | 2 | **hold up** | present | I | orphan | | | | by orphan's forelegs | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | | 3 | **pile** | shall | you | gold pieces | | | | around orphan | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme around he=Destination | | 4 | **hide** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | orphan | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 5 | **is** | shall | I | | | | | with that; content *property* | tree rules | 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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/24/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. 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