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title: Run thou after me and bark, and though thou hast no teeth left, touz… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Run thou after me and bark, and though thou hast no teeth left, touzle me as much as thou canst, so that thy mistress may see it." Who acts: you, thou, mistress. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Old Dog, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Old Dog, sentence 7

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Run thou after me and bark, and though thou hast no teeth left, touzle me as much as thou canst, so that thy mistress may see it."

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**Who acts:** you, thou, mistress · **What happens:** run, have, leave, touzle, see · **To what, where:** thou, teeth, me, bark

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Old Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thou, mistress), 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:pg29672:12:7
# text = Run thou after me and bark, and though thou hast no teeth left, touzle me as much as thou canst, so that thy mistress may see it."
1	Run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	obj	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
11	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
16	touzle	touzle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obj	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nsubj	_	_
22	canst	can	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	29	mark	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | imperative | you *not said here* | thou |  |  | after me |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thou=Trajectory |
| 2 | **have** | present | thou | no teeth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
| 3 | **leave** | participle |  | no teeth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **touzle** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | may | thy mistress | bark |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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