--- title: Stop a bit," he thought, "here I shall get a mouthful." — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Stop a bit," he thought, "here I shall get a mouthful." Who acts: you, Ivan, I. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/75/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/) / 75 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 75 Stop a bit," he thought, "here I shall get a mouthful." **Who acts:** you, Ivan, I · **What happens:** stop, think, get · **To what, where:** bit, mouthful · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, Ivan, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:24:75 # text = Stop a bit," he thought, "here I shall get a mouthful." 1 Stop stop VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 mouthful mouthful NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | imperative | you *not said here* | a bit | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality bit=Eventuality | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | Ivan | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **get** | shall | I | a mouthful | | here | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouthful=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/76/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/)