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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 78

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"We'll see by-and-by whether much will fall to his share!" answered Elijah; "when I've burnt up all his land with lightning, and beaten it all flat with hail, then this Moujik of yours will know what's right, and will learn to keep Elijah's day holy."

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**Who acts:** We, Elijah, Nicholas · **What happens:** see, fall, answer, burnt up, beat, know · **To what, where:** land, lightning, Moujik · **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 (We, Elijah, Nicholas), 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:pg22373:57:78
# text = "We'll see by-and-by whether much will fall to his share!" answered Elijah; "when I've burnt up all his land with lightning, and beaten it all flat with hail, then this Moujik of yours will know what's right, and will learn to keep Elijah's day holy."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
19	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	Elijah	Elijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	parataxis	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	det:predet	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
38	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	44	advmod	_	_
43	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	det	_	_
44	Moujik	Moujik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	obl	_	_
47	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
49	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	51	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
51	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
54	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	conj	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	xcomp	_	_
58	Elijah	Elijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	's	's	PART	POS	_	58	case	_	_
60	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	_
61	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	48	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* | future | We |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **fall** *in a quote* | future | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  | whether much; to Nicholas's share | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to share=Theme |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: express* | past | Elijah |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **burnt up** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Elijah | Nicholas's land |  |  |  | with lightning | tree rules |
| 5 | **beat** *in a quote* | participle | Elijah *not said here* | lightning |  |  |  | with hail; flat *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with hail=Instrument |
| 6 | **know** *in a quote* | future | Elijah *not said here* | this Moujik |  |  |  | of yours | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of your=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **learn** *in a quote* | future |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **keep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | day | holy *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **share** *in a quote* |  | Nicholas |  |  |  |  |  | nom share «possession 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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