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title: "What good would a lot do me, your Majesty? if I want some more afte… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "What good would a lot do me, your Majesty? if I want some more afterwards, you'll give it me." Who acts: king, you. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, 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 6, sentence 163

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"What good would a lot do me, your Majesty? if I want some more afterwards, you'll give it me."

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**Who acts:** king, you · **What happens:** do, want, give · **To what, where:** lot, king, more, Majesty

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (king, you), 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:pg22373:24:163
# text = "What good would a lot do me, your Majesty? if I want some more afterwards, you'll give it me."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	obj	_	_
18	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | would |  | a lot | the king *= king* |  |  | your Majesty *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | the king *= king* | some more |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot more=Theme |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | future | you | Majesty | the king *= king* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient it=Theme |

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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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