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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 72

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Provide yourself with a bridle, and take a thick aspen cudgel, and sit quietly in the izba--don't stir a step anywhere.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** provide, take, sit, not stir · **To what, where:** yourself, thick aspen cudgel, izba, step

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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:pg22373:47:72
# text = Provide yourself with a bridle, and take a thick aspen cudgel, and sit quietly in the izba--don't stir a step anywhere.
1	Provide	provide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	aspen	aspen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	cudgel	cudgel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	izba	izba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	stir	stir	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | imperative | you *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  | with a bridle | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent yourself=Recipient with bridle=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a thick aspen cudgel |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cudgel=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the izba |  | quietly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in izba=Location |
| 4 | **not** **stir** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* | a step |  |  |  | anywhere *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus step=Experiencer |

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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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