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title: "Yes, such a fix that you've never known anything half so awful, eve… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Yes, such a fix that you've never known anything half so awful, even when soldiering." Who acts: fix. 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 69

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"Yes, such a fix that you've never known anything half so awful, even when soldiering."

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**Who acts:** fix · **What happens:** not know, soldier · **To what, where:** fix

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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 (fix), 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:pg22373:47:69
# text = "Yes, such a fix that you've never known anything half so awful, even when soldiering."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	6	det:predet	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fix	fix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	compound	_	_
13	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	11	obj	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
19	soldiering	soldier	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | such fix |  |  |  | awful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **soldier** *in a quote* | gerund | such fix |  |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=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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