--- title: "Don't shoot me, my lord King! better take me home with you; some ti… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: "Don't shoot me, my lord King! better take me home with you; some time or other I shall be of service to you." Who acts: you, time. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/61/) [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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/) / 61 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 61 "Don't shoot me, my lord King! better take me home with you; some time or other I shall be of service to you." **Who acts:** you, time · **What happens:** not shoot, take, be · **To what, where:** Benfey, you This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, time), 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:pg22373:26:61 # text = "Don't shoot me, my lord King! better take me home with you; some time or other I shall be of service to you." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 shoot shoot VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:desc _ _ 9 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ! ! PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 11 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 amod _ _ 12 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 13 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 home home ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 18 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 19 det _ _ 19 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 23 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 cop _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 service service NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **shoot** *in a quote* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | Benfey | | | | King my lord *obl* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 2 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | Benfey | | | with you; home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | shall | some time | | you | | | of service | 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 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/62/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/)