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title: I have now served long enough, and would fain have a little place in… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have now served long enough, and would fain have a little place in the wide world all to myself."--"Good!" said the parson. " Who acts: I, fain, parson. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 2

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I have now served long enough, and would fain have a little place in the wide world all to myself."--"Good!" said the parson. "

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**Who acts:** I, fain, parson · **What happens:** serve, have, say · **To what, where:** little place, myself, wide world, parson · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fain, parson), 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:pg29672:17:2
# text = I have now served long enough, and would fain have a little place in the wide world all to myself."--"Good!" said the parson. "
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	fain	fain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	all	all	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
29	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	parson	parson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  | now | enough, long *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | fain | a little place | myself | the wide world |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | parson *not said here* | the parson |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent parson=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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