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title: When they have killed me, ask thy stepmother to give thee my entrail… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When they have killed me, ask thy stepmother to give thee my entrails to wash, and in them thou wilt find a grain of corn. Who acts: you, thou. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 33

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When they have killed me, ask thy stepmother to give thee my entrails to wash, and in them thou wilt find a grain of corn.

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**Who acts:** you, thou · **What happens:** kill, ask, give, wash, find · **To what, where:** man, stepmother, entrails, thee, grain

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper. 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), 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:pg29672:15:33
# text = When they have killed me, ask thy stepmother to give thee my entrails to wash, and in them thou wilt find a grain of corn.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
12	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	iobj	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	entrails	entrail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
21	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
22	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | present · perfect · passive |  | man |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer i=Result |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | thy stepmother |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent stepmother=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | my entrails | thee |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient entrail=Theme |
| 4 | **wash** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **find** | future | thou | a grain of corn |  |  |  | in man | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Topic |

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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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