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description: "If the blood in this glass turns black, tarry here no longer: that will mean that I am about to die." Who acts: blood, that, brothers. 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 ev
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 30

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"If the blood in this glass turns black, tarry here no longer: that will mean that I am about to die."

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**Who acts:** blood, that, brothers · **What happens:** turn, mean, die · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blood, that, brothers), 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:pg22373:24:30
# text = "If the blood in this glass turns black, tarry here no longer: that will mean that I am about to die."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	tarry	tarry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
13	no	no	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** *in a quote* | present | the blood in this glass |  |  | here |  | black, long *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** *in a quote* | future | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **die** *not said to happen, in a quote* | present | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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