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title: "By the Pike's command, at my request," said the fool, "cast this tu… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "By the Pike's command, at my request," said the fool, "cast this tub ashore and tear it open!" Who acts: command, 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 68

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"By the Pike's command, at my request," said the fool, "cast this tub ashore and tear it open!"

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**Who acts:** command, Pike, my · **What happens:** say, cast, tear, command, request · **To what, where:** fool, tub · **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 (command, 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:pg22373:46:68
# text = "By the Pike's command, at my request," said the fool, "cast this tub ashore and tear it open!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	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	13	nsubj	_	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	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	tub	tub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	ashore	ashore	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the Pike's command and my request | the fool |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cast** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | this tub |  |  |  | ashore *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tub=Product |
| 3 | **tear** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | tub |  |  |  | open *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location it=Theme |
| 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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