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description: "Smith, smith! make me just such a thin little voice as Ivashko's mother has: if you don't, I'll eat you." Who acts: Smith, mother, you. 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 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 136

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"Smith, smith! make me just such a thin little voice as Ivashko's mother has: if you don't, I'll eat you."

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**Who acts:** Smith, mother, you · **What happens:** make, have, not do, eat · **To what, where:** mother, you

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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 (Smith, mother, 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:pg22373:31:136
# text = "Smith, smith! make me just such a thin little voice as Ivashko's mother has: if you don't, I'll eat you."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
9	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	13	det:predet	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	Ivashko	Ivashko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | Smith | mother |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Ivashko's mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **do** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **eat** *in a quote* | future | mother | you |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |

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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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