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title: "Don't shoot me, my lord King! better take me home with you and feed… — 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 and feed me for three years. Who acts: you. 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 clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 67

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"Don't shoot me, my lord King! better take me home with you and feed me for three years.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not shoot, take, feed · **To what, where:** Eaglet

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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), 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:pg22373:26:67
# text = "Don't shoot me, my lord King! better take me home with you and feed me for three years.
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	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	feed	feed	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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* | the Eaglet *= eaglet* |  |  |  | King  my lord *obl* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | the Eaglet *= eaglet* |  |  | with you; home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
| 3 | **feed** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | the Eaglet *= eaglet* |  | year |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |

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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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