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title: Now, did I not bid thee tell not thy wife the truth for seven years?… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, did I not bid thee tell not thy wife the truth for seven years?" said she, "and thou wouldst not take heed." Who acts: I, wife, thou. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of Unlucky Daniel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 91

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Now, did I not bid thee tell not thy wife the truth for seven years?" said she, "and thou wouldst not take heed."

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**Who acts:** I, wife, thou · **What happens:** not bid, not tell, say, not take · **To what, where:** thee, truth, wife, heed · **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 (I, wife, thou), 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:pg29672:10:91
# text = Now, did I not bid thee tell not thy wife the truth for seven years?" said she, "and thou wouldst not take heed."
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	bid	bid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	obj	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
10	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nsubj	_	_
25	wouldst	would	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
28	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bid** | past · do-support | I | thee |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | I *not said here* | the truth | thy wife |  | year |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient truth=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **take** | would | thou | heed |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=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:** «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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