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title: "If that's the case," answers the old man, "there's no use in wearin… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "If that's the case," answers the old man, "there's no use in wearing out your legs. Who acts: that, old man, use. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, 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 5, sentence 133

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"If that's the case," answers the old man, "there's no use in wearing out your legs.

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**Who acts:** that, old man, use · **What happens:** be, answer, wear out · **To what, where:** case, legs · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, old man, use), 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:pg22373:60:133
# text = "If that's the case," answers the old man, "there's no use in wearing out your legs.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
9	answers	answer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
19	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | that | the case |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | the old man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | present | no use |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wear out** *in a quote* | gerund | no use *not said here* | your legs |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent leg=Source |

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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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