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description: And look here, old greybeard! drive straight along the road at first, and then turn off from the road to the right, you know, into the forest--right up to the big pine that stands on the hill, and there hand Marfa over to Morozko (Frost)." Who acts: you, old greybeard, big pine. A sentence of «Russi
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 68

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And look here, old greybeard! drive straight along the road at first, and then turn off from the road to the right, you know, into the forest--right up to the big pine that stands on the hill, and there hand Marfa over to Morozko (Frost)."

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**Who acts:** you, old greybeard, big pine · **What happens:** look, drive, turn off, know, stand · **To what, where:** old greybeard, road, hill

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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 (you, old greybeard, big pine), 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:pg22373:39:68
# text = And look here, old greybeard! drive straight along the road at first, and then turn off from the road to the right, you know, into the forest--right up to the big pine that stands on the hill, and there hand Marfa over to Morozko (Frost)."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	greybeard	greybeard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
8	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	along	along	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	right	right	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
35	up	up	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
47	there	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Typo=Yes	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
49	Marfa	Marfa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	appos	_	_
50	over	over	ADV	RB	_	2	parataxis	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	Morozko	Morozko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
53	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	Frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* | old greybeard |  | here |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **drive** | infinitive | old greybeard *not said here* | the road |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent road=Theme at first=Destination |
| 3 | **turn off** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the road | then | to the right | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **stand** | present | the big pine |  |  | the hill |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location |

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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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