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title: "Get up, Prince! the bridge is ready: my father will be coming to in… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Get up, Prince! the bridge is ready: my father will be coming to inspect it directly." Who acts: you, bridge, father. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, 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 9, sentence 48

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"Get up, Prince! the bridge is ready: my father will be coming to inspect it directly."

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**Who acts:** you, bridge, father · **What happens:** get up, be, come, inspect · **To what, where:** bridge

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bridge, father), 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:pg22373:27:48
# text = "Get up, Prince! the bridge is ready: my father will be coming to inspect it directly."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
16	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	inspect	inspect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get up** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Prince *vocative* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the bridge |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | future · progressive | my father |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **inspect** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | my father *not said here* | bridge |  |  |  | directly *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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