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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/) / 120 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 120 If Vikhor comes, and begins quarrelling, don't come forth, but if he takes to chatting, come forth and say, 'Hail father!' and seize hold of the little finger of his right hand, and wherever he flies do you go with him." **Who acts:** Vikhor, you, Prince · **What happens:** come, begin, not come, take, chat, say · **To what, where:** quarrelling, Hail father, hold, little finger · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vikhor, you, Prince), 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:pg22373:40:120 # text = If Vikhor comes, and begins quarrelling, don't come forth, but if he takes to chatting, come forth and say, 'Hail father!' and seize hold of the little finger of his right hand, and wherever he flies do you go with him." 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 Vikhor Vikhor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 begins begin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 quarrelling quarrelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 10 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 come come VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 forth forth ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 18 to to SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 chatting chat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 21 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 22 forth forth ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 Hail hail NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ! ! PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 seize seize VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 33 hold hold NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 40 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 44 wherever wherever ADV WRB PronType=Int 46 advmod _ _ 45 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 flies fly VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 47 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 48 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 49 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 ccomp _ _ 50 with with ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Vikhor | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **begin** | present | Vikhor *not said here* | quarrelling | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrelling=Eventuality | | 3 | **not** **come** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | | | | | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Prince | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **chat** *speech: other* | gerund | Prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **come** | infinitive | | | | | | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | Hail father | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent father=Topic | | 8 | **seize** | infinitive | | hold of the little finger of Prince's right hand | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | | 9 | **fly** | present | Prince | | | | | wherever *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **go** | present · do-support | you | | | | | with Prince | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | | 11 | **hold** | | | the little finger of Prince's right hand | | | | | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/119/) - next →: [sentence 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/121/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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