--- title: "If you get out of here, tell my children to dig up the money--one p… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: "If you get out of here, tell my children to dig up the money--one pot is buried at the gate, and the other in the corn-kiln--and to distribute it among the poor." Who acts: children. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:52:26 # text = "If you get out of here, tell my children to dig up the money--one pot is buried at the gate, and the other in the corn-kiln--and to distribute it among the poor." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 5 out out ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 dig dig VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 -- -- PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 kiln kiln NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 -- -- PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 distribute distribute VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 among among ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get out** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | my children *= child* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | imperative | my children *= child* *not said here* | | my children | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **dig up** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | | the money | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent money=Theme | | 4 | **bury** *in a quote* | present · passive | | one pot | | the gate | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at gate=Destination | | 5 | **distribute** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | my children *= child* *not said here* | money | | | | among the poor | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme among poor=Recipient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/52/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/52/27/) - ↑ back to [Ghost Stories., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/52/)