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title: Take it and play upon it!" roared his father at him. — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Take it and play upon it!" roared his father at him. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Three Brothers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Three Brothers, sentence 43

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Take it and play upon it!" roared his father at him.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take, play, roar · **To what, where:** hand, father · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Three Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg29672:18:43
# text = Take it and play upon it!" roared his father at him.
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	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
9	roared	roar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | hand |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **play** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon hand | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **roar** *in a quote* | past |  | father's father |  |  |  | at father | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent father=Theme at he=Stimulus |

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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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