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title: ‘Not so, brothers; I shall go and look for Marya Morevna.’ — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Not so, brothers; I shall go and look for Marya Morevna.’ Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 169

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‘Not so, brothers; I shall go and look for Marya Morevna.’

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** go, look

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. 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.

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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:pg540:7:169
# text = ‘Not so, brothers; I shall go and look for Marya Morevna.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Marya	Marya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	Morevna	Morevna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | shall | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Marya | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for marya=Theme |

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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:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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