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title: "Listen, O meat for dogs!" answered Katoma; "to-morrow Prince Ivan w… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Listen, O meat for dogs!" answered Katoma; "to-morrow Prince Ivan will ride you to the wedding. Who acts: you, Katoma, Prince Ivan. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 92

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"Listen, O meat for dogs!" answered Katoma; "to-morrow Prince Ivan will ride you to the wedding.

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**Who acts:** you, Katoma, Prince Ivan · **What happens:** listen, answer, ride · **To what, where:** meat, you, morrow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Katoma, Prince Ivan), 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:pg22373:43:92
# text = "Listen, O meat for dogs!" answered Katoma; "to-morrow Prince Ivan will ride you to the wedding.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
10	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	Katoma	Katoma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
17	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | meat for dogs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: express* | past | Katoma |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **ride** *in a quote* | future | Prince Ivan | you |  | morrow |  | to the wedding | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme to morrow=Trajectory |

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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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