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description: [241] _Spasibo_ is the word in popular use as an expression of thanks, and it now means nothing more than "thank you!" Who acts: thanks. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 40

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\[241\] \_Spasibo\_ is the word in popular use as an expression of thanks, and it now means nothing more than "thank you!"

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**Who acts:** thanks · **What happens:** be, mean, thank · **To what, where:** word, popular use, nothing, 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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thanks), 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:pg22373:41:40
# text = [241] _Spasibo_ is the word in popular use as an expression of thanks, and it now means nothing more than "thank you!"
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	241	241	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Spasibo	Spasibo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	22	obj	_	_
24	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
25	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the word |  | popular use as a expression of thanks |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | thanks | nothing |  |  | now |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | thanks *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

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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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