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title: "Gladly would I have taken you, Prince Ivan!" replied the giant, "bu… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Gladly would I have taken you, Prince Ivan!" replied the giant, "but now I have very little longer to live. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, 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 14, sentence 89

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"Gladly would I have taken you, Prince Ivan!" replied the giant, "but now I have very little longer to live.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** take, reply, have, live · **To what, where:** you, giant · **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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg22373:32:89
# text = "Gladly would I have taken you, Prince Ivan!" replied the giant, "but now I have very little longer to live.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
13	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *in a quote* | would · perfect | I |  | you |  |  | gladly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: express* | past |  | the giant |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  | now | long *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **live** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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