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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/) / 76 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 76 He loaded his gun and was going to shoot, but the crow exclaimed, "Don't hurt me; I'll do you a good turn." **Who acts:** Ivan, crow · **What happens:** load, go, shoot, exclaim, not hurt, do · **To what, where:** gun, crow, good turn, you · **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 (Ivan, crow), 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:pg22373:24:76 # text = He loaded his gun and was going to shoot, but the crow exclaimed, "Don't hurt me; I'll do you a good turn." 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 loaded load VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 gun gun NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 shoot shoot VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 crow crow NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 exclaimed exclaim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 18 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 iobj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 turn turn NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **load** | past | Ivan | Ivan's gun | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | past · progressive | Ivan *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **shoot** | to-infinitive | Ivan *not said here* | | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | the crow | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **hurt** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | the crow *not said here* | the crow *= crow* | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Patient | | 6 | **do** *in a quote* | future | the crow *= crow* | a good turn | you | | | | tree rules | 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 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/75/) - next →: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/77/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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