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title: And he asked them, "Do ye know by which way I can get to the capital?" — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And he asked them, "Do ye know by which way I can get to the capital?" Who acts: man, ye. 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 72

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And he asked them, "Do ye know by which way I can get to the capital?"

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**Who acts:** man, ye · **What happens:** ask, know, get · **To what, where:** feet, way · **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 (man, ye), 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:pg29672:19:72
# text = And he asked them, "Do ye know by which way I can get to the capital?"
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	12	det	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | man |  | feet *= foot* |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | ye |  |  |  |  | by which way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | can | man | which way *not said here* |  |  |  | to the capital | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=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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