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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 108

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"What are you thinking about! you're still very small; suppose you get drowned, what good will there be in that?"

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, suppose, drown · **To what, where:** you, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. 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:pg22373:31:108
# text = "What are you thinking about! you're still very small; suppose you get drowned, what good will there be in that?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	csubj	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	suppose	suppose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	get	get	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	nsubj	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | about, think *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  | still | small *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **suppose** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **drown** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | future |  |  |  | that; there |  |  | tree rules |

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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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