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title: "Surely," thinks she, "they can't be still in want of a light at hom… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Surely," thinks she, "they can't be still in want of a light at home." Who acts: Home. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, 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 13, sentence 11

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"Surely," thinks she, "they can't be still in want of a light at home."

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**Who acts:** Home · **What happens:** think, not be · **To what, where:** want · **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 (Home), 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:pg22373:31:11
# text = "Surely," thinks she, "they can't be still in want of a light at home."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
10	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present |  |  |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | can | Home |  |  | want | still | of a light at home | 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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