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title: But if you manage to say before she speaks, 'Tprru! stand still, jad… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: But if you manage to say before she speaks, 'Tprru! stand still, jade!' she will be turned into a mare. Who acts: you, fix, Tprru. 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 clau
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 75

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But if you manage to say before she speaks, 'Tprru! stand still, jade!' she will be turned into a mare.

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**Who acts:** you, fix, Tprru · **What happens:** manage, say, speak, stand, turn · **To what, where:** jade, fix · **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 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, fix, Tprru), 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:pg22373:47:75
# text = But if you manage to say before she speaks, 'Tprru! stand still, jade!' she will be turned into a mare.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	manage	manage	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Tprru	Tprru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
14	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	jade	jade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **manage** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | fix |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stand** | infinitive | Tprru | jade |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **turn** | future · passive |  | fix |  |  |  | into a mare *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into mare=Result |

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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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