--- title: Plant this grain of corn, and out of it will grow up a willow-tree,… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Plant this grain of corn, and out of it will grow up a willow-tree, and whatever thou dost want, go to this willow-tree and ask, and thou shalt have thy heart's desire." Who acts: you, thou, heart. 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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, heart), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29672:15:34 # text = Plant this grain of corn, and out of it will grow up a willow-tree, and whatever thou dost want, go to this willow-tree and ask, and thou shalt have thy heart's desire." 1 Plant plant VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 8 out out ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ _ 11 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 willow willow NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 1 parataxis _ _ 21 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 nsubj _ _ 22 dost do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 28 willow willow NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 37 nsubj _ _ 36 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 38 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 40 's 's PART POS _ 39 case _ _ 41 desire desire NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **plant** | imperative | you *not said here* | this grain of corn | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Patient | | 2 | **grow up** | future | | a willow tree | | grain | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme | | 3 | **do** | present | thou | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **want** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **go** *not said to happen* | infinitive | thou *not said here* | | | this willow tree | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | thou *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **have** | shall | thou | thy heart's desire | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient | | 8 | **desire** | | thy heart | | | | | | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/15/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/15/35/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Slipper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/15/)