--- title: "Wait a bit!" thinks Ivan, and then continues aloud, "Very good, I'l… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: "Wait a bit!" thinks Ivan, and then continues aloud, "Very good, I'll take you; but only on condition that you bring home my mill-stones for me." Who acts: Ivan, you. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, with its dependen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/9/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/) / 9 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 9 "Wait a bit!" thinks Ivan, and then continues aloud, "Very good, I'll take you; but only on condition that you bring home my mill-stones for me." **Who acts:** Ivan, you · **What happens:** wait, think, continue, take, bring · **To what, where:** bit, you, condition · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Ivan, 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:pg22373:37:9 # text = "Wait a bit!" thinks Ivan, and then continues aloud, "Very good, I'll take you; but only on condition that you bring home my mill-stones for me." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 csubj _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 7 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 Ivan Ivan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ _ 12 continues continue VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 aloud aloud ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 Very very ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 parataxis _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 only only ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 condition condition NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 obj _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 bring bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 home home ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 33 mill mill NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** *in a quote* | infinitive | | a bit | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Ivan | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **continue** | present | Ivan *not said here* | | | | then | aloud *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **take** *in a quote* | future | Ivan | | you | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | | 5 | **bring** *in a quote* | present | you | condition | | | | for Ivan; home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent that=Destination stone=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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/10/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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