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title: Says the King to the doctors: "What sort of valuables will you have?… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Says the King to the doctors: "What sort of valuables will you have? would you like gold or silver? Who acts: King, sort, doctors. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, 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 4, sentence 42

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Says the King to the doctors: "What sort of valuables will you have? would you like gold or silver?

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**Who acts:** King, sort, doctors · **What happens:** say, have, like, sort · **To what, where:** doctors, gold, valuables · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, sort, doctors), 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:pg22373:59:42
# text = Says the King to the doctors: "What sort of valuables will you have? would you like gold or silver?
1	Says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	10	det	_	_
10	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	valuables	valuable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
20	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | the King |  | the doctors |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to doctor=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | future | what sort of valuables |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **like** *in a quote* | would | the doctors *= doctor* | gold or silver |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gold=Theme |
| 4 | **sort** *in a quote* |  |  | valuables |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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