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title: “What on earth do you mean, you vile thief, by taking money and not… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “What on earth do you mean, you vile thief, by taking money and not giving up the golden stirrup?” Who acts: you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 2

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“What on earth do you mean, you vile thief, by taking money and not giving up the golden stirrup?”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** mean, thief, take, not give up · **To what, where:** money, golden stirrup

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg62509:4:2
# text = “What on earth do you mean, you vile thief, by taking money and not giving up the golden stirrup?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	vile	vile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
15	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	stirrup	stirrup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **thief** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | gerund |  | money |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **give up** *in a quote* | gerund |  | the golden stirrup |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stirrup=Source |

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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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