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title: Look at the beast that is traipsing up and down our courtyard: get r… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Look at the beast that is traipsing up and down our courtyard: get rid of him.” Who acts: you, beast. 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 99

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Look at the beast that is traipsing up and down our courtyard: get rid of him.”

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**Who acts:** you, beast · **What happens:** look, traipse, get · **To what, where:** courtyard

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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, beast), 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:pg62509:8:99
# text = Look at the beast that is traipsing up and down our courtyard: get rid of him.”
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	traipsing	traipse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	up	up	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	conj	_	_
11	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
15	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the beast | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at beast=Theme |
| 2 | **traipse** | present · progressive | the beast | our courtyard |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme courtyard=Trajectory |
| 3 | **get** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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