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title: Suppose we carry her off, brother, and let her live here and keep ho… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Suppose we carry her off, brother, and let her live here and keep house for us." Who acts: we, town. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 21

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Suppose we carry her off, brother, and let her live here and keep house for us."

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**Who acts:** we, town · **What happens:** carry off, let, live, keep · **To what, where:** town, house

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, town), 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:pg22373:44:21
# text = Suppose we carry her off, brother, and let her live here and keep house for us."
1	Suppose	suppose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry off** | present | we | town |  |  |  | brother *obl* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | we *not said here* | town |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | infinitive | town *not said here* |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | infinitive | town *not said here* | house |  |  |  | for us | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=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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