--- title: "Ah, brother Nicholas!" said Elijah, guessing the truth, "it's you w… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: "Ah, brother Nicholas!" said Elijah, guessing the truth, "it's you who go and tell the Moujik everything!" Who acts: Nicholas, truth, you. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/58/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter VI. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nicholas, truth, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:58:11 # text = "Ah, brother Nicholas!" said Elijah, guessing the truth, "it's you who go and tell the Moujik everything!" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:desc _ _ 5 Nicholas Nicholas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 Elijah Elijah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 guessing guess VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 Moujik Moujik PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Nicholas brother | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **guess** | gerund | Nicholas brother *not said here* | the truth | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | truth | you | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* | everything | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Recipient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/58/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/58/12/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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