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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 106

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But to thee, Nicholas, because thou didst assist the moujik to set free his cart, shall men twice every year offer up thanksgiving."

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**Who acts:** thee, men · **What happens:** do, assist, set, offer up · **To what, where:** moujik, free cart, thanksgiving

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thee, men), 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:pg22373:58:106
# text = But to thee, Nicholas, because thou didst assist the moujik to set free his cart, shall men twice every year offer up thanksgiving."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	TO	_	3	case	_	_
3	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj:outer	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
9	didst	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	assist	assist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	moujik	moujik	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
21	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	24	advmod	_	_
22	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	thanksgiving	thanksgiving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | thee |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **assist** | infinitive | thee *not said here* | the moujik |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moujik=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **set** | to-infinitive | thee *not said here* | Moujik's free cart |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient cart=Result |
| 4 | **offer up** | infinitive | men | thanksgiving |  |  | year | twice *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent thanksgiving=Theme |

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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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