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title: "What are you lying on the stove for, fool? there's no wood for the… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "What are you lying on the stove for, fool? there's no wood for the fire; go and fetch some." Who acts: you, wood. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, 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 5, sentence 30

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"What are you lying on the stove for, fool? there's no wood for the fire; go and fetch some."

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**Who acts:** you, wood · **What happens:** lie, fool, be, go, fetch · **To what, where:** stove, some · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wood), 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:pg22373:46:30
# text = "What are you lying on the stove for, fool? there's no wood for the fire; go and fetch some."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	csubj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	fool	fool	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you |  |  | the stove |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme |
| 2 | **fool** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | present | no wood for the fire |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fetch** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | some |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=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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