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title: Go back to this nobleman and say to him that the reason why the sun… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Go back to this nobleman and say to him that the reason why the sun turns so red as he sets is this: Just as the sun is going down into the sea, three fair ladies rise out of it, and it is the sight of them which makes him turn so red all over!" Who acts: you, sun, reason, three fair ladies. A sente
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 184

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Go back to this nobleman and say to him that the reason why the sun turns so red as he sets is this: Just as the sun is going down into the sea, three fair ladies rise out of it, and it is the sight of them which makes him turn so red all over!"

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**Who acts:** you, sun, reason, three fair ladies, sight · **What happens:** go back, say, turn, set, go down, be · **To what, where:** overseer, sea, reason, sight, SUN · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, sun, reason, three fair ladies), 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:pg29672:19:184
# text = Go back to this nobleman and say to him that the reason why the sun turns so red as he sets is this: Just as the sun is going down into the sea, three fair ladies rise out of it, and it is the sight of them which makes him turn so red all over!"
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
13	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
23	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
25	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	nsubj	_	_
31	down	down	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
37	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	rise	rise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	parataxis	_	_
40	out	out	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
46	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nmod	_	_
51	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	52	nsubj	_	_
52	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	acl:relcl	_	_
53	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	xcomp	_	_
55	so	so	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	xcomp	_	_
57	all	all	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	over	over	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to this nobleman *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to nobleman=Result |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | overseer |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 3 | **turn** | present | the sun |  |  |  |  | red *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **set** | present | SUN |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **go down** | present · progressive | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **is** | present | the reason |  |  | the sea |  | down *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **rise** | present | three fair ladies |  |  | reason |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out it=Location |
| 8 | **is a** | present | reason | the sight |  |  |  | of ladies *= lady* | tree rules |
| 9 | **make** | present | the sight | SUN |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **turn** | infinitive | SUN *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over, red *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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