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title: Fair she may be," replied the nobleman, "but she is another's."--"Sh… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Fair she may be," replied the nobleman, "but she is another's."--"She need not be another's for long," replied the overseer. " Who acts: nobleman, another. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 180

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Fair she may be," replied the nobleman, "but she is another's."--"She need not be another's for long," replied the overseer. "

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**Who acts:** nobleman, another · **What happens:** be, reply, not be · **To what, where:** nobleman, overseer

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobleman, another), 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:pg29672:19:180
# text = Fair she may be," replied the nobleman, "but she is another's."--"She need not be another's for long," replied the overseer. "
1	Fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
7	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	need	need	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
25	another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
31	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	overseer	overseer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  | the nobleman |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nobleman=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | nobleman |  |  |  |  | 's another; for long | tree rules |
| 4 | **reply** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | another | the overseer |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent overseer=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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