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title: Well, as soon as these horrors begin, jump on to the stove as quick… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, as soon as these horrors begin, jump on to the stove as quick as you can, squeeze yourself into a corner, and silently offer up prayers. Who acts: horrors, you. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, with its dependency t
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 106

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Well, as soon as these horrors begin, jump on to the stove as quick as you can, squeeze yourself into a corner, and silently offer up prayers.

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**Who acts:** horrors, you · **What happens:** begin, jump on, squeeze, offer up · **To what, where:** yourself, corner, prayers

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horrors, you), 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:pg22373:47:106
# text = Well, as soon as these horrors begin, jump on to the stove as quick as you can, squeeze yourself into a corner, and silently offer up prayers.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	horrors	horror	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	begin	begin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	jump	jump	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	on	on	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
22	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	offer	offer	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | present | this horrors |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **jump on** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the stove *result*; soon *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to stove=Result |
| 3 | **squeeze** | infinitive | you *not said here* | yourself |  | a corner |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent yourself=Material into corner=Product |
| 4 | **offer up** | infinitive | you *not said here* | prayers |  |  |  | silently *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prayer=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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