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title: "Well, I'm going to offer a rouble taper to Prophet Elijah; he's bee… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well, I'm going to offer a rouble taper to Prophet Elijah; he's been ever so good to me! Who acts: Nicholas, Prophet. 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 every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 21

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"Well, I'm going to offer a rouble taper to Prophet Elijah; he's been ever so good to me!

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**Who acts:** Nicholas, Prophet · **What happens:** go, offer, be · **To what, where:** rouble taper, Prophet, Nicholas

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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 (Nicholas, Prophet), 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:pg22373:58:21
# text = "Well, I'm going to offer a rouble taper to Prophet Elijah; he's been ever so good to me!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	rouble	rouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	taper	taper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Prophet	Prophet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	Elijah	Elijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
19	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Nicholas  St. *= nicholas* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **offer** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Nicholas  St. *= nicholas* *not said here* | a rouble taper | Prophet |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent taper=Theme to prophet=Goal |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Prophet |  | Nicholas  St. *= nicholas* |  | ever | good *property* | tree rules |

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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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