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title: And so, methinks, the Priest may whistle for his money!" — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: And so, methinks, the Priest may whistle for his money!" Who acts: methinks. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 104

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And so, methinks, the Priest may whistle for his money!"

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**Who acts:** methinks · **What happens:** whistle

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (methinks), 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:pg22373:57:104
# text = And so, methinks, the Priest may whistle for his money!"
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	methinks	methink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Priest	Priest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	whistle	whistle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whistle** | may | methinks  the Priest |  |  |  |  | for Brother's money | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for money=Recipient |

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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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