--- title: “Well, if you will not let me in to be tortured, at least give me tw… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Well, if you will not let me in to be tortured, at least give me two hundred souls. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13, 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/pg62509/13/121/) [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 Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/13/) / 121 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 121 “Well, if you will not let me in to be tortured, at least give me two hundred souls. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not let in, torture, not give · **To what, where:** soldier, hundred souls, least This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:13:121 # text = “Well, if you will not let me in to be tortured, at least give me two hundred souls. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 if if SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 tortured torture VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 17 obl _ _ 17 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 18 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ _ 19 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 compound _ _ 20 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 souls soul NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **let in** *in a quote* | future | you | soldier | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 2 | **torture** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 3 | **not** **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | hundred souls | soldier | least | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient soul=Theme at least=Asset | 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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/13/120/) - next →: [sentence 122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/13/122/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/13/)