--- title: Take it home, and when thou gettest there, make to thyself a cattle-… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Take it home, and when thou gettest there, make to thyself a cattle-pen, and make it strong; then break the egg in the middle of thy cattle-pen, and thou shalt see something. Who acts: you, thou. 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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), 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:pg29672:17:5 # text = Take it home, and when thou gettest there, make to thyself a cattle-pen, and make it strong; then break the egg in the middle of thy cattle-pen, and thou shalt see something. 1 Take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 home home ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 7 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 nsubj _ _ 8 gettest get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 9 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 11 make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 thyself thyself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch 11 obl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 cattle cattle NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 pen pen NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 25 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 nmod:poss _ _ 33 cattle cattle NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 pen pen NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 40 nsubj _ _ 39 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 41 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | egg | | | | home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **get** | present | thou | | | there | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **make** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a cattle pen | | | | to thyself | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **make** | infinitive | you *not said here* | egg | | | | strong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 5 | **break** | infinitive | | the egg | | the middle of thy cattle pen | then | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egg=Patient | | 6 | **see** | shall | thou | something | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/17/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/17/6/) - ↑ back to [The Iron Wolf](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/17/)