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title: Wilt thou not take five hundred with the halter?"--"No, not a bit of… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Wilt thou not take five hundred with the halter?"--"No, not a bit of it!"--"Take six hundred, then!" Who acts: 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 128

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Wilt thou not take five hundred with the halter?"--"No, not a bit of it!"--"Take six hundred, then!"

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** not take, take · **To what, where:** five hundred, six hundred

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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), 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:pg29672:2:128
# text = Wilt thou not take five hundred with the halter?"--"No, not a bit of it!"--"Take six hundred, then!"
1	Wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	_
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	halter	halter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	18	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
26	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	compound	_	_
27	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **take** | future | thou | five hundred |  |  |  | with the halter; a bit of halter *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | six hundred |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=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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