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title: Only he'd have to look out sharp in burning me; for snakes and worms… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Only he'd have to look out sharp in burning me; for snakes and worms and different kinds of reptiles would creep out of my inside, and crows and magpies and jackdaws would come flying up. Who acts: Soldier, snakes, crows. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 24

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Only he'd have to look out sharp in burning me; for snakes and worms and different kinds of reptiles would creep out of my inside, and crows and magpies and jackdaws would come flying up.

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**Who acts:** Soldier, snakes, crows · **What happens:** have, look out, burn, creep out, come, fly up · **To what, where:** me, inside

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soldier, snakes, crows), 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:pg22373:54:24
# text = Only he'd have to look out sharp in burning me; for snakes and worms and different kinds of reptiles would creep out of my inside, and crows and magpies and jackdaws would come flying up.
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	advcl	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	creep	creep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	inside	inside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
30	crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	magpies	magpie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	jackdaws	jackdaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
37	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	xcomp	_	_
38	up	up	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | Soldier |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look out** | to-infinitive | Soldier *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sharp *property* | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **burn** | gerund | Soldier *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **creep out** | would | snakes and worms and different kinds of reptiles | my inside |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location inside=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | would | crows and magpies and jackdaws |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **fly up** | gerund | crows and magpies and jackdaws *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «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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