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title: I'll tell thee now what wage I'll give thee for thy faithful service. — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I'll tell thee now what wage I'll give thee for thy faithful service. Who acts: I, thy. 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 3

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I'll tell thee now what wage I'll give thee for thy faithful service.

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**Who acts:** I, thy · **What happens:** tell, wage, give, service · **To what, where:** thee · **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, thy), 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:pg29672:17:3
# text = I'll tell thee now what wage I'll give thee for thy faithful service.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	iobj	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wage	wage	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
11	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	iobj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future | I |  | thee |  | now |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **wage** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | future | I |  | thee |  |  | for thy faithful service | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent thou=Theme for service=Asset |
| 4 | **service** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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