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title: "What art thou stumbling for, sorry jade? dost thou scent any ill?" — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "What art thou stumbling for, sorry jade? dost thou scent any ill?" A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, 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 5, sentence 63

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"What art thou stumbling for, sorry jade? dost thou scent any ill?"

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**What happens:** stumble, do · **To what, where:** thou

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg22373:23:63
# text = "What art thou stumbling for, sorry jade? dost thou scent any ill?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	obj	_	_
5	stumbling	stumble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	jade	jade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
11	dost	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	obj	_	_
13	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stumble** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for sorry jade | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | present |  | thou |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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