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title: "Well, then, if you won't drink, come along and read your psalter." — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well, then, if you won't drink, come along and read your psalter." Who acts: you. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, 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 6, sentence 188

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"Well, then, if you won't drink, come along and read your psalter."

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not drink, come along, read · **To what, where:** psalter

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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 (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:pg22373:47:188
# text = "Well, then, if you won't drink, come along and read your psalter."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	along	along	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	psalter	psalter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **drink** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come along** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then | along *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **read** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | your psalter |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent psalter=Topic |

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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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