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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 25

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"There now, Elijah!" says Nicholas, "you say I go and tell everything to the Moujik--surely you can see for yourself how much truth there is in that!"

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**Who acts:** Elijah, you, much truth · **What happens:** say, go, tell, see, be · **To what, where:** everything, Moujik, that · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elijah, you, much truth), 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:pg22373:58:25
# text = "There now, Elijah!" says Nicholas, "you say I go and tell everything to the Moujik--surely you can see for yourself how much truth there is in that!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	ccomp	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Elijah	Elijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Moujik	Moujik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obl	_	_
29	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
30	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	33	expl	_	_
33	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | present | Elijah |  |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | Elijah |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | Elijah *not said here* | everything | the Moujik |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Topic to moujik=Recipient |
| 5 | **see** *in a quote* | can | you |  |  |  |  | for yourself; surely *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **be** *in a quote* | present | much truth |  |  | that; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in that=Location |

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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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