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title: "Now then, what are you staring at!" said Woe to the peasant, "be qu… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Now then, what are you staring at!" said Woe to the peasant, "be quick and pitch it into the cart." Who acts: peasant, Woe. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, 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 III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 72

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"Now then, what are you staring at!" said Woe to the peasant, "be quick and pitch it into the cart."

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**Who acts:** peasant, Woe · **What happens:** stare, say, be, pitch · **To what, where:** peasant, place, cart · **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 (peasant, Woe), 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:pg22373:36:72
# text = "Now then, what are you staring at!" said Woe to the peasant, "be quick and pitch it into the cart."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	staring	stare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Woe	Woe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	pitch	pitch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stare** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the peasant *= peasant* |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Woe |  | the peasant |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to peasant=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | quick *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pitch** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | place |  | the cart |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme into cart=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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