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description: "Well, my lord King! you have fed me two years; now, whether you like it or no, feed me for one year more. 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 77

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"Well, my lord King! you have fed me two years; now, whether you like it or no, feed me for one year more.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** feed, like · **To what, where:** King, hand, more, skazka

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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:pg22373:26:77
# text = "Well, my lord King! you have fed me two years; now, whether you like it or no, feed me for one year more.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	24	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | King  my lord |  |  | now; year |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Theme |
| 2 | **like** *in a quote* | present | you | hand |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 3 | **feed** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | more | skazka |  | year |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient more=Theme |

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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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