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title: Then he took and filled three barrels, the first with gold, and the… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he took and filled three barrels, the first with gold, and the second with coal, and the third with sand, and said to Daniel, "Look now! if thou dost pitch upon that which is filled with gold, thou shalt be a Tsar; if thou dost choose the one that is filled with coal, thou shalt be a blacksmith
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 34

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Then he took and filled three barrels, the first with gold, and the second with coal, and the third with sand, and said to Daniel, "Look now! if thou dost pitch upon that which is filled with gold, thou shalt be a Tsar; if thou dost choose the one that is filled with coal, thou shalt be a blacksmith; but if thou dost pick out the one that is full of sand, why then thou art indeed hopelessly unlucky, and out of my tsardom thou must go straightway, yet I will give thee a horse and armour to take along with thee."

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**Who acts:** Tsar, thou, one, I · **What happens:** take, fill, say, look, do, be · **To what, where:** three barrels, Daniel, pitch, that, Tsar, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of Unlucky Daniel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar, thou, one, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg29672:10:34
# text = Then he took and filled three barrels, the first with gold, and the second with coal, and the third with sand, and said to Daniel, "Look now! if thou dost pitch upon that which is filled with gold, thou shalt be a Tsar; if thou dost choose the one that is filled with coal, thou shalt be a blacksmith; but if thou dost pick out the one that is full of sand, why then thou art indeed hopelessly unlucky, and out of my tsardom thou must go straightway, yet I will give thee a horse and armour to take along with thee."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	barrels	barrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
33	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
35	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	37	nsubj	_	_
37	dost	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
38	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	advcl	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	51	nsubj	_	_
48	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
49	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	cop	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
54	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	55	nsubj	_	_
55	dost	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
56	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	xcomp	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	_
59	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	61	nsubj:pass	_	_
60	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	61	aux:pass	_	_
61	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	58	acl:relcl	_	_
62	with	with	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
65	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	69	nsubj	_	_
66	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	69	aux	_	_
67	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	69	cop	_	_
68	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
69	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	75	punct	_	_
71	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	75	cc	_	_
72	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	74	mark	_	_
73	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	74	nsubj	_	_
74	dost	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	75	advcl	_	_
75	pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
76	out	out	ADP	RP	_	75	compound:prt	_	_
77	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	78	det	_	_
78	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	75	obj	_	_
79	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	81	nsubj	_	_
80	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	81	cop	_	_
81	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	78	acl:relcl	_	_
82	of	of	ADP	IN	_	83	case	_	_
83	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	81	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
84	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	88	punct	_	_
85	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	86	advmod	_	_
86	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	88	advmod	_	_
87	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	88	nsubj	_	_
88	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
89	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	91	advmod	_	_
90	hopelessly	hopelessly	ADV	RB	_	91	advmod	_	_
91	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	88	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
92	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	100	punct	_	_
93	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	100	cc	_	_
94	out	out	ADP	IN	_	97	case	_	_
95	of	of	ADP	IN	_	97	case	_	_
96	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	97	nmod:poss	_	_
97	tsardom	tsardom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	100	obl	_	_
98	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	100	nsubj	_	_
99	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	100	aux	_	_
100	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
101	straightway	straightway	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	100	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
102	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	106	punct	_	_
103	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	106	cc	_	_
104	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	106	nsubj	_	_
105	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	106	aux	_	_
106	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
107	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	106	iobj	_	_
108	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	109	det	_	_
109	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	106	obj	_	_
110	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	111	cc	_	_
111	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	109	conj	_	_
112	to	to	PART	TO	_	113	mark	_	_
113	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	106	advcl	_	_
114	along	along	ADV	RB	_	113	advmod	_	_
115	with	with	ADP	IN	_	116	case	_	_
116	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	113	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
117	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
118	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Tsar |  |  |  | then |  | vn require-103 «NP V that S»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 2 | **fill** | past | Tsar *not said here* | three barrels |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent barrel=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past |  |  | Daniel |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to daniel=Recipient |
| 4 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | thou | pitch |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pitch=Eventuality |
| 6 | **fill** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | that |  |  |  | with gold | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with gold=Instrument |
| 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | shall | thou | a Tsar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **choose** *in a quote* | infinitive | thou *not said here* | the one |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 10 | **fill** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the one |  |  |  | with coal | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with coal=Instrument |
| 11 | **is a** *in a quote* | shall | thou | a blacksmith |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 12 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 13 | **pick out** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the one |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 14 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the one |  |  |  |  | of sand; full *property* | tree rules |
| 15 | **go** *in a quote* | must | thou |  |  | my tsardom |  | straightway *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out tsardom=Initial\_Location |
| 16 | **give** *in a quote* | future | I | a horse and armour | thee |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient horse=Theme |
| 17 | **take** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with thee; along *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:** «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.

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