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description: "Give my compliments to the brook Chorny, and say to him about the mill: there used not to be one, and so there shall not be one!" Who acts: you, my. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 9

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"Give my compliments to the brook Chorny, and say to him about the mill: there used not to be one, and so there shall not be one!"

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**Who acts:** you, my · **What happens:** give, say, use, not be, compliment · **To what, where:** compliments, brook, Chorny, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, my), 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:pg22373:39:9
# text = "Give my compliments to the brook Chorny, and say to him about the mill: there used not to be one, and so there shall not be one!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	compliments	compliment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	Chorny	Chorny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	conj	_	_
28	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | my compliments | the brook |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent compliment=Theme to brook=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | Chorny |  |  | about the mill | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 3 | **use** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | shall |  | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **compliment** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom compliment «communication transitive»: poss=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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