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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 177

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In a Little-Russian skazka a poor man catches a fish and takes it as a present to his rich brother, who says, "A splendid fish! thank you, brother, thank you!" but evinces no other sign of gratitude.

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**Who acts:** Russian poor man, rich brother · **What happens:** catch, take, say, thank, evince, sign · **To what, where:** fish, you, other sign, gratitude · **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 (Russian poor man, rich brother), 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:pg22373:36:177
# text = In a Little-Russian skazka a poor man catches a fish and takes it as a present to his rich brother, who says, "A splendid fish! thank you, brother, thank you!" but evinces no other sign of gratitude.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
3	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	skazka	skazka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	nsubj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	catches	catch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
32	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
38	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
41	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	evinces	evince	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
43	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	45	det	_	_
44	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | present | a Russian poor man | a fish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | present | a Russian poor man *not said here* | fish |  |  |  | as a present; to man's rich brother | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme to brother=be' clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | present | man's rich brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | a Russian poor man *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 5 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 6 | **evince** | present | a Russian poor man *not said here* | no other sign of gratitude |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **sign** |  |  | gratitude |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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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