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title: Why do you do that?" asked puss, and he replied, "Little hares have… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do you do that?" asked puss, and he replied, "Little hares have nice little soft warm skins, which will make me gloves and mittens against the winter!"--"Oh! daddy dear! don't flay me, and I'll bring you kale and good cauliflower, if only you let me go!" Who acts: you, bear, Little hares, nice l
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 50

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Why do you do that?" asked puss, and he replied, "Little hares have nice little soft warm skins, which will make me gloves and mittens against the winter!"--"Oh! daddy dear! don't flay me, and I'll bring you kale and good cauliflower, if only you let me go!"

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**Who acts:** you, bear, Little hares, nice little soft warm skins, I, me · **What happens:** do, ask, reply, have, make, not flay · **To what, where:** that, puss, gloves, me, kale, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Straw Ox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bear, Little hares, nice little soft warm skins), 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:pg29672:14:50
# text = Why do you do that?" asked puss, and he replied, "Little hares have nice little soft warm skins, which will make me gloves and mittens against the winter!"--"Oh! daddy dear! don't flay me, and I'll bring you kale and good cauliflower, if only you let me go!"
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
8	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	puss	puss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hares	hare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	mittens	mitten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
32	against	against	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	41	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	39	punct	_	_
41	daddy	daddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
42	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
44	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	46	advmod	_	_
46	flay	flay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
47	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
50	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
53	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	kale	kale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
56	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	cauliflower	cauliflower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
59	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	62	mark	_	_
60	only	only	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
61	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
62	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	conj	_	_
63	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	62	obj	_	_
64	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	62	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	64	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	52	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · do-support | you | that |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | past |  | puss |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent puss=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | bear |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | present | Little hares |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | future | nice little soft warm skins | gloves and mittens | me |  | winter |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary glove=Product |
| 6 | **not** **flay** | present · do-support | nice little soft warm skins | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **bring** | future | I | kale and good cauliflower | you |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination kale=Theme |
| 8 | **let** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **go** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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