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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 139

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"Mind," says he, "when you begin threshing your corn, never put more than one sheaf at a time on the threshing-floor."

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** say, begin, thresh, not put · **To what, where:** Nicholas, corn, one sheaf, threshing floor · **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 (you), 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:pg22373:57:139
# text = "Mind," says he, "when you begin threshing your corn, never put more than one sheaf at a time on the threshing-floor."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	begin	begin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	threshing	thresh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	20	advmod	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	sheaf	sheaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	threshing	threshing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | Nicholas |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **thresh** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | your corn |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | one sheaf |  | the threshing floor | time |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sheaf=Theme on floor=Destination |

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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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