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title: “Well, look you to it,” the fair maiden said; “the devils are going… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well, look you to it,” the fair maiden said; “the devils are going to give you gold and silver—do not take any of it. Who acts: fair maiden, devils. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 29

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“Well, look you to it,” the fair maiden said; “the devils are going to give you gold and silver—do not take any of it.

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**Who acts:** fair maiden, devils · **What happens:** look, say, go, give, not take · **To what, where:** you, palace, gold, any · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fair maiden, devils), 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:pg62509:5:30
# text = “Well, look you to it,” the fair maiden said; “the devils are going to give you gold and silver—do not take any of it.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	devils	devil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
30	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | you | palace |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Attribute |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the fair maiden |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the devils |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the devils *not said here* | gold and silver | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient gold=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **take** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  | any of palace |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme |

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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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