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title: Just let me lay hold of her by those grey hairs of hers!" — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Just let me lay hold of her by those grey hairs of hers!" Who acts: you, me. 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 50

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Just let me lay hold of her by those grey hairs of hers!"

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**Who acts:** you, me · **What happens:** let, lay, hold · **To what, where:** me, hold, Yaga

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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 (you, me), 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:pg22373:44:50
# text = Just let me lay hold of her by those grey hairs of hers!"
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hairs	hair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lay** | infinitive | me *not said here* | hold of Yaga |  |  |  | by that grey hairs of Yaga | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hold=Theme by hair=Destination |
| 3 | **hold** |  |  | Yaga |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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