--- title: "Mammie, mammie, thus and thus, a snake got upon my shift, and says… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: "Mammie, mammie, thus and thus, a snake got upon my shift, and says he, 'Marry me or I won't let you have your shift;' and I said, 'I will.'" Who acts: Mammie, you, my, your. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/106/) [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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/) / 106 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 106 "Mammie, mammie, thus and thus, a snake got upon my shift, and says he, 'Marry me or I won't let you have your shift;' and I said, 'I will.'" **Who acts:** Mammie, you, my, your · **What happens:** get, say, marry, not let, have, shift · **To what, where:** Mammie, you, shift · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mammie, you, my, your), 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:pg22373:25:106 # text = "Mammie, mammie, thus and thus, a snake got upon my shift, and says he, 'Marry me or I won't let you have your shift;' and I said, 'I will.'" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Mammie Mammie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 mammie mammie NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 thus thus ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 thus thus ADV RB _ 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 upon upon ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 shift shift NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ _ 23 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 27 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 shift shift NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** *in a quote* | past | Mammie | | | | | upon my shift | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Mammie *not said here* | Mammie | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **marry** *in a quote* | infinitive | | Mammie | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | | 4 | **not** **let** *in a quote* | future | Mammie | you | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | your shift | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shift=Patient | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Mammie | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **shift** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom shift «event transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **shift** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom shift «event transitive»: poss=agent | 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 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/105/) - next →: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/107/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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