--- title: I can't get to sleep, for I'm always thinking which bride to choose." — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: I can't get to sleep, for I'm always thinking which bride to choose." Who acts: I. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/60/173/) [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. LEGENDS, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/60/) / 173 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 173 I can't get to sleep, for I'm always thinking which bride to choose." **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not get, think, choose · **To what, where:** bride 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 (I), 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:pg22373:60:173 # text = I can't get to sleep, for I'm always thinking which bride to choose." 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP TO _ 6 case _ _ 6 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 for for SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 12 advmod _ _ 12 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 13 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 14 det _ _ 14 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **get** | can | I | | | | | to sleep *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to sleep=Result | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present · progressive | I | which bride | | | | always *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bride=Theme | | 3 | **choose** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | which bride *not said here* | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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 172](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/60/172/) - next →: [Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/1/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/60/)