--- title: "What a fool you are!" says she, "people sing because they've made a… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: "What a fool you are!" says she, "people sing because they've made a good meal and had lots to drink; but why ever should you dream of singing?" Who acts: wife, people, you. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/36/5/) [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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/36/) / 5 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 5 "What a fool you are!" says she, "people sing because they've made a good meal and had lots to drink; but why ever should you dream of singing?" **Who acts:** wife, people, you · **What happens:** fool, say, sing, make, have, drink · **To what, where:** good meal, lots · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (wife, people, you), 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:pg22373:36:5 # text = "What a fool you are!" says she, "people sing because they've made a good meal and had lots to drink; but why ever should you dream of singing?" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 ccomp _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 9 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 sing sing VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 24 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 30 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 33 advmod _ _ 31 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 dream dream VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 34 of of SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fool** *in a quote* | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | present | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | present | wife | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 4 | **make** *in a quote* | present · perfect | people | a good meal | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset meal=Product | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | past | people *not said here* | lots | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient | | 6 | **drink** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | lots *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **dream** *in a quote* | should | you | | | | ever | | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/36/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/36/6/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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