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title: “But if you will not let me in, with my snout I will drill all of yo… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “But if you will not let me in, with my snout I will drill all of your uprights and will knock your _izbá_[43] down.” Who acts: you, Pig. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 22

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“But if you will not let me in, with my snout I will drill all of your uprights and will knock your \_izbá\_\[43\] down.”

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**Who acts:** you, Pig · **What happens:** not let in, drill, knock down · **To what, where:** Pig, all, izbá

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Pig), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:31:22
# text = “But if you will not let me in, with my snout I will drill all of your uprights and will knock your _izbá_[43] down.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	snout	snout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	drill	drill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	uprights	upright	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	izbá	izbá	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	43	43	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
31	down	down	ADV	RB	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **let in** *in a quote* | future | you | the Pig *= pig* |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **drill** *in a quote* | future | the Pig *= pig* | all of your uprights |  |  |  | with my snout | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent all=Patient with snout=Instrument |
| 3 | **knock down** *in a quote* | future | you *not said here* | your izbá |  |  |  | 43 *obl* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent izbá=Patient |

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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:** «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.

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