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title: “Things will now go better,” said the peasant, “for if I were to tak… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Things will now go better,” said the peasant, “for if I were to take you back with me, Sorrow, you would drink up all of this money!” Who acts: Things, peasant, you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 49

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“Things will now go better,” said the peasant, “for if I were to take you back with me, Sorrow, you would drink up all of this money!”

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**Who acts:** Things, peasant, you · **What happens:** go, say, take back, drink up · **To what, where:** you, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Things, peasant, you), 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:pg62509:36:49
# text = “Things will now go better,” said the peasant, “for if I were to take you back with me, Sorrow, you would drink up all of this money!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
6	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	Sorrow	sorrow	INTJ	UH	_	29	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | future | Things |  |  |  | now | well *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the peasant |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take back** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | the peasant *= peasant* |  | you |  |  | with the peasant *= peasant* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
| 4 | **drink up** *in a quote* | would | you | all of this money |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=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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