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title: I will change myself into a falcon, and thou must sell me to them; o… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I will change myself into a falcon, and thou must sell me to them; only sell me for three hundred roubles, and without a hood." Who acts: I, thou. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 108

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I will change myself into a falcon, and thou must sell me to them; only sell me for three hundred roubles, and without a hood."

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**Who acts:** I, thou · **What happens:** change, sell · **To what, where:** myself, me

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thou), 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:pg29672:2:108
# text = I will change myself into a falcon, and thou must sell me to them; only sell me for three hundred roubles, and without a hood."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	sell	sell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	compound	_	_
22	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	roubles	rouble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	without	without	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	hood	hood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | future | I | myself |  |  |  | into a falcon *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent myself=Patient into falcon=Result |
| 2 | **sell** | must | thou |  | me |  |  | to falcons *= falcon* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Theme to they=Recipient |
| 3 | **sell** | infinitive |  |  | me |  |  | for hundred roubles; without a hood | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Theme for rouble=Asset |

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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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