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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 136

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Be off at once to the smithy, and get them to make you young; if you don't, I won't so much as acknowledge you!"

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**Who acts:** you, bones · **What happens:** be, get, make, not do, acknowledge · **To what, where:** bones, you

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bones), 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:pg22373:17:136
# text = Be off at once to the smithy, and get them to make you young; if you don't, I won't so much as acknowledge you!"
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
2	off	off	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	obl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	smithy	smithy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	acknowledge	acknowledge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the smithy | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | infinitive |  | bones *= bone* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | bones *= bone* *not said here* | you |  |  |  | young *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
| 4 | **not** **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **acknowledge** | infinitive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |

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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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