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title: "When thou art in Novgorod, thou wilt meet a tall, big moujik in a p… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "When thou art in Novgorod, thou wilt meet a tall, big moujik in a plaited blue caftan, wide blue trowsers, and a high blue hat. Who acts: thou. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 3

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"When thou art in Novgorod, thou wilt meet a tall, big moujik in a plaited blue caftan, wide blue trowsers, and a high blue hat.

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** meet, plait · **To what, where:** tall big moujik, plaited blue caftan

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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 (thou), 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:pg22373:39:3
# text = "When thou art in Novgorod, thou wilt meet a tall, big moujik in a plaited blue caftan, wide blue trowsers, and a high blue hat.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Novgorod	Novgorod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
9	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	moujik	moujik	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	plaited	plait	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
19	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	caftan	caftan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	trowsers	trowser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** *in a quote* | future | thou | a tall big moujik |  | a plaited blue caftan and wide blue trowsers and a high blue hat |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moujik=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **plait** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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