--- title: "Ah, brother! how can I? you know very well you'll be having merchan… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: "Ah, brother! how can I? you know very well you'll be having merchants coming to you in boots and pelisses, but I have to go about in bast shoes and a miserable old grey caftan." Who acts: poor man, you, merchants. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chap --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/168/) [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 III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/) / 168 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 168 "Ah, brother! how can I? you know very well you'll be having merchants coming to you in boots and pelisses, but I have to go about in bast shoes and a miserable old grey caftan." **Who acts:** poor man, you, merchants · **What happens:** know, have, come, go about · **To what, where:** merchants, you, boots, bast shoes · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man, you, merchants), 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:pg22373:35:168 # text = "Ah, brother! how can I? you know very well you'll be having merchants coming to you in boots and pelisses, but I have to go about in bast shoes and a miserable old grey caftan." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 6 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 12 very very ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux _ _ 17 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 ccomp _ _ 18 merchants merchant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 boots boot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 pelisses pelisse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 about about ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 bast bast NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 38 miserable miserable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 39 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 caftan caftan NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** *in a quote* | can | the poor man *= man* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | future · progressive | you | merchants | | | | well *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchant=Patient | | 3 | **come** *in a quote* | gerund | merchants *not said here* | | you | boots and pelisses | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the poor man *= man* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **go about** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the poor man *= man* *not said here* | | | bast shoes and a miserable old grey caftan | | about *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: 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 167](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/167/) - next →: [sentence 169](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/169/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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