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title: "Wife! wife, I say! shall I climb up into heaven and see what's goin… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Wife! wife, I say! shall I climb up into heaven and see what's going on there? Who acts: Wife. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 112

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"Wife! wife, I say! shall I climb up into heaven and see what's going on there?

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**Who acts:** Wife · **What happens:** say, climb up, see, go on · **To what, where:** heaven · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wife), 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:pg22373:51:112
# text = "Wife! wife, I say! shall I climb up into heaven and see what's going on there?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present | Wife and wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **climb up** *in a quote* | shall | Wife and wife *= wife* |  |  | heaven |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into heaven=Destination |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | Wife and wife *= wife* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 4 | **go on** *in a quote* | present · progressive |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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