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title: "Well, little mother," said they, "we will take this daughter away w… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well, little mother," said they, "we will take this daughter away with us."--"What! take a slattern like that? Who acts: little mother, daughter. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Nobles and Princes], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Nobles and Princes\], sentence 8

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"Well, little mother," said they, "we will take this daughter away with us."--"What! take a slattern like that?

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**Who acts:** little mother, daughter · **What happens:** say, take away, take · **To what, where:** daughter, slattern · **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 (little mother, daughter), 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:pg29672:16:8
# text = "Well, little mother," said they, "we will take this daughter away with us."--"What! take a slattern like that?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
26	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	slattern	slattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | little mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take away** *in a quote* | future | daughter | this daughter |  |  |  | with us; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | a slattern |  |  |  | like that | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument what=Theme slattern=Destination |

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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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