--- title: Thou must cut it down."--"Nay!" said he, "how can I cut down the fai… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Thou must cut it down."--"Nay!" said he, "how can I cut down the fairest ornament of my garden?"--"Down it must come, and down it shall come!" replied the Tsarivna. Who acts: Thou, Tsar, I, tree. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou, Tsar, I, tree), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29672:10:113 # text = Thou must cut it down."--"Nay!" said he, "how can I cut down the fairest ornament of my garden?"--"Down it must come, and down it shall come!" replied the Tsarivna. 1 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nsubj _ _ 2 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 down down ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 6 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 -- -- PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Nay nay INTJ UH _ 13 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ! ! PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 21 down down ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 fairest fair ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 24 amod _ _ 24 ornament ornament NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ? ? PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 -- -- PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 Down down ADP IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 down down ADP IN _ 41 mark _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 44 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 Tsarivna Tsarivna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut down** | must | Thou | tree | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Tsar | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **cut down** | can | I | the fairest ornament of my garden | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ornament=Product | | 4 | **come** | must | tree | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **come** | shall | tree | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **reply** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the Tsarivna | | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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 112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/10/112/) - next →: [sentence 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/10/114/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Unlucky Daniel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/10/)