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title: On that linen she will either strangle thee or scald[256] thee." — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: On that linen she will either strangle thee or scald[256] thee." Who acts: crone. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, 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 3, sentence 138

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On that linen she will either strangle thee or scald\[256\] thee."

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**Who acts:** crone · **What happens:** strangle, scald · **To what, where:** thee, linen, 256

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crone), 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:pg22373:37:138
# text = On that linen she will either strangle thee or scald[256] thee."
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
7	strangle	strangle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	obj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	scald	scald	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	256	256	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strangle** | future | crone | thee |  | that linen |  | either *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient |
| 2 | **scald** | infinitive | crone *not said here* | 256 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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