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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 185

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But if you don't--why then you mustn't be annoyed at finding your head stuck on top of the last pole up there."

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**Who acts:** you, head · **What happens:** not do, not be, find, stick · **To what, where:** head, top

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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 (you, head), 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:pg22373:22:185
# text = But if you don't--why then you mustn't be annoyed at finding your head stuck on top of the last pole up there."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	xcomp	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	up	up	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | must | you |  |  |  | then | annoyed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | gerund | you *not said here* | your head |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent head=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **stick** | participle | your head *not said here* |  |  | top of the last pole; there |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on top=Destination |

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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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