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title: Sit there, thou daughter of a dog!" said she.--Then the Tsar's counc… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Sit there, thou daughter of a dog!" said she.--Then the Tsar's councillors came into the hut to measure, and the old woman said to her daughter, "Put out thy little foot, darling!"--The councillors then measured with the slippers, but they wouldn't fit her at all. Who acts: you, thou, thing, council
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Nobles and Princes\], sentence 6

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Sit there, thou daughter of a dog!" said she.--Then the Tsar's councillors came into the hut to measure, and the old woman said to her daughter, "Put out thy little foot, darling!"--The councillors then measured with the slippers, but they wouldn't fit her at all.

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**Who acts:** you, thou, thing, councillors, old woman, daughter · **What happens:** sit, daughter, say, come, measure, put out · **To what, where:** hut, daughter, little foot, councillors, woman, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Nobles and Princes\]. 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, thing, councillors), 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:pg29672:16:6
# text = Sit there, thou daughter of a dog!" said she.--Then the Tsar's councillors came into the hut to measure, and the old woman said to her daughter, "Put out thy little foot, darling!"--The councillors then measured with the slippers, but they wouldn't fit her at all.
1	Sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	councillors	councillor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	measure	measure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
38	out	out	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	darling	darling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	councillors	councillor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nsubj:pass	_	_
49	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	50	advmod	_	_
50	measured	measure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
51	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
55	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
56	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
57	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	59	advmod	_	_
59	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
60	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	obj	_	_
61	at	at	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **daughter** |  | thou |  |  |  |  | of a dog | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | past | the Tsar's councillors |  |  | the hut | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into hut=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **measure** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Tsar's councillors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the old woman |  | woman's daughter |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient |
| 7 | **put out** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thy little foot and darling |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent foot=Goal |
| 8 | **measure** *in a quote* | participle · passive |  | the councillors |  |  | then | with the slippers | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value |
| 9 | **not** **fit** *in a quote* | would | daughter | woman |  | all |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme at all=Trajectory |

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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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