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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 154

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"Take the feast-day sarafan,"\[236\] cries Need from behind the stove; "and with the money you get for it buy a ham and take it to your brother's."

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**Who acts:** you, 236 cries · **What happens:** take, need, get, buy · **To what, where:** day sarafan, stove, ham, brother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 236 cries), 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:pg22373:36:154
# text = "Take the feast-day sarafan,"[236] cries Need from behind the stove; "and with the money you get for it buy a ham and take it to your brother's."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	sarafan	sarafan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	236	236	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	Need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	ham	ham	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	's	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	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* | imperative | you *not said here* | the day sarafan |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent sarafan=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **need** | present | 236 cries |  |  | the stove |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | with the money; for money | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **buy** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | a ham |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ham=Theme |
| 5 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | ham | your brother |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to brother=Destination |

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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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