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title: "I see, your Reverence, God has sent you a misfortune--the hail has… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "I see, your Reverence, God has sent you a misfortune--the hail has beaten the whole field so flat you might roll a ball over it. Who acts: Elijah, hail, you, your. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, with its dependency tree 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 112

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"I see, your Reverence, God has sent you a misfortune--the hail has beaten the whole field so flat you might roll a ball over it.

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**Who acts:** Elijah, hail, you, your · **What happens:** see, send, beat, roll, reverence · **To what, where:** Reverence, you, whole field, ball, hail · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Elijah, hail, you, your), 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:pg22373:57:112
# text = "I see, your Reverence, God has sent you a misfortune--the hail has beaten the whole field so flat you might roll a ball over it.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Reverence	reverence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	roll	roll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	over	over	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present | Elijah |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **send** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | your Reverence | you |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **beat** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the hail | the whole field |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location field=Theme |
| 4 | **roll** *in a quote* | might | you | a ball |  | hail |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent ball=Theme over it=Trajectory |
| 5 | **reverence** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom reverence «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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