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description: "What, you fright! you sleepy-face! you abominable shrew! why, you don't know so much as how to begin weaving: and as to going on with it, you haven't an idea!" Who acts: sleepy face, you. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, par
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 132

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"What, you fright! you sleepy-face! you abominable shrew! why, you don't know so much as how to begin weaving: and as to going on with it, you haven't an idea!"

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**Who acts:** sleepy face, you · **What happens:** fright, not know, begin, weave, go on, have · **To what, where:** much, idea

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sleepy face, 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:pg22373:39:132
# text = "What, you fright! you sleepy-face! you abominable shrew! why, you don't know so much as how to begin weaving: and as to going on with it, you haven't an idea!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
13	abominable	abominable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	shrew	shrew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
16	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obj	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
28	weaving	weave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	fixed	_	_
33	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	advcl	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
38	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
41	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fright** *in a quote* |  | sleepy face and abominable shrew |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | much |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus |
| 3 | **begin** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **weave** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **go on** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with fright | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you | a idea |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=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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