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title: "Anyhow I'll eat this lion cub," says he; "I'm so hungry, I feel qui… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Anyhow I'll eat this lion cub," says he; "I'm so hungry, I feel quite unwell!" Who acts: I, queen bee. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, 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 II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 174

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"Anyhow I'll eat this lion cub," says he; "I'm so hungry, I feel quite unwell!"

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**Who acts:** I, queen bee · **What happens:** eat, say, be, feel · **To what, where:** lion cub, Koshchei · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, queen bee), 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:pg22373:22:174
# text = "Anyhow I'll eat this lion cub," says he; "I'm so hungry, I feel quite unwell!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Anyhow	anyhow	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	cub	cub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
11	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	unwell	unwell	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** *in a quote* | future | I | this lion cub |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cub=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | I *not said here* | Koshchei |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the queen bee *= bee* |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **feel** *in a quote* | present | the queen bee *= bee* |  |  |  |  | unwell *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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