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title: "Things will be much better like that," said the peasant: "if I were… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Things will be much better like that," said the peasant: "if I were to take you home with me, O Woeful Woe, sooner or later you'd be sure to drink away all this money, too!" Who acts: Things, better, you. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 81

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"Things will be much better like that," said the peasant: "if I were to take you home with me, O Woeful Woe, sooner or later you'd be sure to drink away all this money, too!"

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**Who acts:** Things, better, you · **What happens:** be, say, take, drink away · **To what, where:** peasant, you, money · **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 (Things, better, you), 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:pg22373:36:81
# text = "Things will be much better like that," said the peasant: "if I were to take you home with me, O Woeful Woe, sooner or later you'd be sure to drink away all this money, too!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	nsubj	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	home	home	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	28	case	_	_
27	Woeful	woeful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
30	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	36	advmod	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	conj	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
36	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	away	away	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	42	det:predet	_	_
41	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	det	_	_
42	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | future | Things |  |  |  |  | like that; good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | better | the peasant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | better *= good* | you |  |  |  | with better *= good*; home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Theme woe=Destination |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | would | you |  |  |  |  | soon, sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **drink away** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | all money |  |  |  | away *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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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