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title: "Won't your Reverence buy some standing corn? — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Won't your Reverence buy some standing corn? Who acts: Reverence, your. 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 84

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"Won't your Reverence buy some standing corn?

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**Who acts:** Reverence, your · **What happens:** not buy, stand, reverence · **To what, where:** standing corn

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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 (Reverence, 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:pg22373:57:84
# text = "Won't your Reverence buy some standing corn?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	Reverence	reverence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
8	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **buy** *in a quote* | future | your Reverence | some standing corn |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **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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