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title: "By the Pike's command, at my request, do thou, O stove, go to the K… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "By the Pike's command, at my request, do thou, O stove, go to the King!" Who acts: you, Pike, my. 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 58

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"By the Pike's command, at my request, do thou, O stove, go to the King!"

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**Who acts:** you, Pike, my · **What happens:** do, stove, go, command, request · **To what, where:** thou · **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, Pike, my), 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:pg22373:46:58
# text = "By the Pike's command, at my request, do thou, O stove, go to the King!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	By	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Pike	Pike	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
16	stove	stove	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | thou |  |  |  | by the Pike's command and my request | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality |
| 2 | **stove** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **command** *in a quote* |  | the Pike |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **request** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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