--- title: “It is well you asked only about things you saw in the courtyard, an… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “It is well you asked only about things you saw in the courtyard, and not about things without it, for I do not like people to tell tales out of school, and I eat up everybody who is too curious. Who acts: It, you, I. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15, with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/15/18/) [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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/15/) / 18 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 18 “It is well you asked only about things you saw in the courtyard, and not about things without it, for I do not like people to tell tales out of school, and I eat up everybody who is too curious. **Who acts:** It, you, I · **What happens:** be, see, not like, tell, eat up · **To what, where:** things, courtyard, people, tales, school, everybody · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, you, I), 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:pg62509:15:18 # text = “It is well you asked only about things you saw in the courtyard, and not about things without it, for I do not like people to tell tales out of school, and I eat up everybody who is too curious. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 only only ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 courtyard courtyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 18 about about ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 20 without without ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 for for SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 31 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 out out ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 39 up up ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 everybody everybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 38 obj _ _ 41 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 44 nsubj _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 43 too too ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 curious curious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present | It | | | | | about things without courtyard; you *nsubj*; ask, well *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **see** *in a quote* | past | you | things *not said here* | | the courtyard | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **like** *in a quote* | present · do-support | I | people | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | tales | | school | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | | 5 | **eat up** *in a quote* | present | I | everybody | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everybody=Patient | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | who *nsubj*; curious *property* | tree rules | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/15/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/15/19/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/15/)