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title: Is that thy falcon?"--"'Tis mine."--"Sell it to us, then!"--"Bid for… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Is that thy falcon?"--"'Tis mine."--"Sell it to us, then!"--"Bid for it!"--"What dost thou want for it?"--"If ye give three hundred roubles, ye may take it, but it must be without the hood."--"As if we want _thy_ hood! Who acts: thou, ye, mine, we. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales»,
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 113

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Is that thy falcon?"--"'Tis mine."--"Sell it to us, then!"--"Bid for it!"--"What dost thou want for it?"--"If ye give three hundred roubles, ye may take it, but it must be without the hood."--"As if we want \_thy\_ hood!

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**Who acts:** thou, ye, mine, we · **What happens:** be, sell, bid, want, give, take · **To what, where:** falcon, mine, us, hundred roubles

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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 (thou, ye, mine, we), 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:pg29672:2:113
# text = Is that thy falcon?"--"'Tis mine."--"Sell it to us, then!"--"Bid for it!"--"What dost thou want for it?"--"If ye give three hundred roubles, ye may take it, but it must be without the hood."--"As if we want _thy_ hood!
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Tis	Tis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	mine	mine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Sell	sell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	73	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Bid	bid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	73	csubj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	36	obj	_	_
34	dost	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	36	nsubj	_	_
36	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	parataxis	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	45	nsubj	_	_
45	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	advcl	_	_
46	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	compound	_	_
47	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	48	nummod	_	_
48	roubles	rouble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
50	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	52	nsubj	_	_
51	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	parataxis	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
55	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
56	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
57	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	61	aux	_	_
58	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	61	cop	_	_
59	without	without	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	hood	hood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	73	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	73	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	69	mark	_	_
67	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	69	mark	_	_
68	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	69	nsubj	_	_
69	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	73	advcl	_	_
70	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	69	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	73	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	73	amod	_	_
73	hood	hood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | thy falcon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sell** | infinitive |  | mine | us |  |  | thy \_ hood *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to we=Recipient |
| 3 | **bid** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for mine | tree rules |
| 4 | **want** | present · do-support | thou |  |  |  |  | for mine | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 5 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | ye | hundred roubles |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rouble=Theme |
| 6 | **take** | may | ye | mine |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | must | mine |  |  |  |  | without the hood | tree rules |
| 8 | **want** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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