--- title: But you pretend to be ill, and when your husband comes back tell him… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But you pretend to be ill, and when your husband comes back tell him, ‘I saw in my sleep that the throat of our foal must be cut and the liver extracted, and I must be rubbed with the liver; then my disease will pass away.’” Who acts: you, husband, I, liver. 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N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, husband, I, liver), 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:pg62509:28:67 # text = But you pretend to be ill, and when your husband comes back tell him, ‘I saw in my sleep that the throat of our foal must be cut and the liver extracted, and I must be rubbed with the liver; then my disease will pass away.’” 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pretend pretend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 cop _ _ 6 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 9 when when SCONJ WRB _ 12 mark _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 13 back back ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 foal foal NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 parataxis _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 liver liver NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 extracted extract VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 39 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 rubbed rub VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 parataxis _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 liver liver NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ; ; PUNCT : _ 50 punct _ _ 46 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 50 advmod _ _ 47 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 disease disease NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 49 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 50 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 51 away away ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pretend** | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | ill *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **come back** | present | your husband | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | husband | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 5 | **see** | past | I | | | my sleep | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **cut** | must · passive | | the throat of our foal | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 7 | **extract** | past | the liver | | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **rub** | must · passive | | I | | | | with the liver | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with liver=Theme | | 9 | **pass away** | future | my disease | | | | then | away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 10 | **sleep** | | my | | | | | | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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 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 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/28/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/28/68/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/28/)