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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 45

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Then the Frost threatens to freeze the peasant to death, but the Wind comforts him, saying, "I will blow warm, and will not let you be hurt."

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**Who acts:** Frost, Wind, you · **What happens:** threaten, freeze, comfort, say, blow, not let · **To what, where:** peasant, dog, you · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frost, Wind, you), 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:pg22373:40:45
# text = Then the Frost threatens to freeze the peasant to death, but the Wind comforts him, saying, "I will blow warm, and will not let you be hurt."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	threatens	threaten	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	freeze	freeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	comforts	comfort	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
24	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **threaten** | present | the Frost |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **freeze** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Frost *not said here* | the peasant |  |  |  | to death | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient peasant=Result |
| 3 | **comfort** | present | the Wind | dog |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Wind *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **blow** *in a quote* | future | the Wind *= wind* |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **let** *in a quote* | future | the Wind *= wind* *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **hurt** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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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