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description: The Tcheremisses have similar ideas, and are afraid of knocking the icicles off their houses, thinking that, if they do so, Frost will wax wroth and freeze them to death. Who acts: Tcheremisses. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICA
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 34

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The Tcheremisses have similar ideas, and are afraid of knocking the icicles off their houses, thinking that, if they do so, Frost will wax wroth and freeze them to death.

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**Who acts:** Tcheremisses · **What happens:** have, be, knock, think, do, freeze · **To what, where:** similar ideas, icicles, that, Frost wax, Tcheremisses

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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 (Tcheremisses), 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:pg22373:40:34
# text = The Tcheremisses have similar ideas, and are afraid of knocking the icicles off their houses, thinking that, if they do so, Frost will wax wroth and freeze them to death.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Tcheremisses	tcheremiss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	knocking	knock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	icicles	icicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	Frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	wroth	wroth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	freeze	freeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the Tcheremisses | similar ideas |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | the Tcheremisses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **knock** | gerund |  | the icicles |  |  |  | off Tcheremisses's houses | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent icicle=Patient off house=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the Tcheremisses *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | present | Tcheremisses *= tcheremiss* | Frost wax |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **freeze** | infinitive | Tcheremisses *= tcheremiss* *not said here* | Tcheremisses *= tcheremiss* |  |  |  | to death | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result |

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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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