--- title: “Now, my brother,” said the wizard, “I am going to tear you to bits! — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Now, my brother,” said the wizard, “I am going to tear you to bits! Who acts: brother. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2, 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/pg62509/2/159/) [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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/2/) / 159 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 159 “Now, my brother,” said the wizard, “I am going to tear you to bits! **Who acts:** brother · **What happens:** say, go, tear · **To what, where:** wizard, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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:pg62509:2:159 # text = “Now, my brother,” said the wizard, “I am going to tear you to bits! 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 wizard wizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 ccomp _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 tear tear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | my brother | the wizard | | | now | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | my brother *= brother* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **tear** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | my brother *= brother* *not said here* | you | | | | to bits *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent you=Patient to bit=Result | 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 158](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/2/158/) - next →: [sentence 160](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/2/160/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/2/)