--- title: “No, your Majesty, I do not wish to be a general; but if you will do… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “No, your Majesty, I do not wish to be a general; but if you will do me a favour, give me one of your daughters as my wife, and you shall have as much money as you wish for the Treasury.” Who acts: fool, you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37, with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/37/27/) [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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/37/) / 27 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 27 “No, your Majesty, I do not wish to be a general; but if you will do me a favour, give me one of your daughters as my wife, and you shall have as much money as you wish for the Treasury.” **Who acts:** fool, you · **What happens:** not wish, be, do, give, have, wish · **To what, where:** favour, fool, one, much money This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fool, you), 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:pg62509:37:27 # text = “No, your Majesty, I do not wish to be a general; but if you will do me a favour, give me one of your daughters as my wife, and you shall have as much money as you wish for the Treasury.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 10 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 Majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 wish wish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 cop _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 general general ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 17 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 21 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 iobj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 25 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 iobj _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 31 as as ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 39 as as ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 42 as as SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 43 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 advcl _ _ 45 for for ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 Treasury Treasury PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ” " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **wish** *in a quote* | present · do-support | what fool *= fool* | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **is** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | what fool *= fool* *not said here* | | | | | general *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | you | a favour | what fool *= fool* | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | what fool *= fool* *not said here* | one of your daughters | what fool *= fool* | | | as my wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient one=Theme | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | you | much money | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | | 6 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | for the Treasury | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for treasury=Theme | 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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/37/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/37/28/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/37/)