--- title: And they began to ask each other, "Dost _thou_ know her? — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And they began to ask each other, "Dost _thou_ know her? Who acts: people, thou. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/15/66/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / [The Golden Slipper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/15/) / 66 # Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 66 And they began to ask each other, "Dost \_thou\_ know her? **Who acts:** people, thou · **What happens:** begin, ask, do, know · **To what, where:** each, Lady · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (people, thou), 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:pg29672:15:66 # text = And they began to ask each other, "Dost _thou_ know her? 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 5 obj _ _ 7 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Dost do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 11 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 _ _ AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 15 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | people | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | each | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Recipient | | 3 | **do** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **know** *in a quote* | | thou | Lady | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | 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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/15/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/15/67/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Slipper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/15/)