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title: “Lie there and freeze; that’s the way to become master of Mark’s wea… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Lie there and freeze; that’s the way to become master of Mark’s wealth!” Who acts: you, that. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 113

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“Lie there and freeze; that’s the way to become master of Mark’s wealth!”

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**Who acts:** you, that · **What happens:** lie, freeze, be, become · **To what, where:** way, master

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that), 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:pg62509:8:113
# text = “Lie there and freeze; that’s the way to become master of Mark’s wealth!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Lie	lie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	freeze	freeze	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	Mark	Mark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **freeze** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | the way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **become** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | master of Mark's wealth |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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