--- title: Thou art too young for a tsardom, and great riches last but for a li… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Thou art too young for a tsardom, and great riches last but for a little while; ask God for a good wife, for if it please God to give thee a good wife, 'tis a gift that will bless thee all thy life long." Who acts: gift. 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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 (gift), 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:pg29672:19:163 # text = Thou art too young for a tsardom, and great riches last but for a little while; ask God for a good wife, for if it please God to give thee a good wife, 'tis a gift that will bless thee all thy life long." 1 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 2 nsubj _ _ 2 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 too too ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 obj _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 tsardom tsardom NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 riches rich NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 19 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 20 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 if if SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 please please INTJ UH _ 30 discourse _ _ 30 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 vocative _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 33 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 32 iobj _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 tis tis NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 42 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 44 nsubj _ _ 43 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 bless bless VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 acl:relcl _ _ 45 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 44 obj _ _ 46 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 48 det _ _ 47 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 49 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 44 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | | God | | | for a good wife; God *vocative* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent god=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | a good wife and tis | thee | | | a gift *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient wife=Theme | | 3 | **bless** | future | a gift | thee | | | | long *property* | tree rules | 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 162](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/19/162/) - next →: [sentence 164](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/19/164/) - ↑ back to [The Tsar and the Angel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/19/)