--- title: If you can pick out the same one three times running, she shall be y… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: If you can pick out the same one three times running, she shall be your wife; if you fail to do so, I shall have you put to death." Who acts: you, three times, bride, I. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, with its depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/27/72/) [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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/27/) / 72 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 72 If you can pick out the same one three times running, she shall be your wife; if you fail to do so, I shall have you put to death." **Who acts:** you, three times, bride, I · **What happens:** pick out, run, be, fail, not do, have · **To what, where:** same one, wife, you 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, three times, bride, I), 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:pg22373:27:72 # text = If you can pick out the same one three times running, she shall be your wife; if you fail to do so, I shall have you put to death." 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 9 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 14 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 cop _ _ 16 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 19 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 fail fail VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 xcomp _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pick out** | can | you | the same one | | | time | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 2 | **run** | gerund | three times *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | shall | bride | your wife | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **fail** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **not** **do** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **have** | shall | I | you | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **put** | participle | you *not said here* | | | | | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/27/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/27/73/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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