--- title: How then can one lead him off?"--"Nevertheless, the halter must rema… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: How then can one lead him off?"--"Nevertheless, the halter must remain mine."--"Look now, my father, I'll give thee five roubles extra, only I must have the halter."--The old man fell a-thinking. " Who acts: one, halter, I, old man. 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" **Who acts:** one, halter, I, old man · **What happens:** lead off, remain, look, give, have, fall · **To what, where:** gipsy, mine, five roubles, thee, halter, thinking 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 (one, halter, I, old man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29672:2:131 # text = How then can one lead him off?"--"Nevertheless, the halter must remain mine."--"Look now, my father, I'll give thee five roubles extra, only I must have the halter."--The old man fell a-thinking. " 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nsubj _ _ 5 lead lead VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 off off ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 -- -- PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Nevertheless nevertheless ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 halter halter NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 remain remain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 18 mine my PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 -- -- PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 24 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 32 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 31 iobj _ _ 33 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 roubles rouble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 35 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 only only ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 halter halter NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 -- -- PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 49 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ SpaceAfter=No 51 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 thinking thinking NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 54 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lead off** | can | one | gipsy | | | then | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 2 | **remain** | must | the halter | mine | | | | nevertheless *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme my=Attribute | | 3 | **look** | infinitive | | | | | now | my father *vocative* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **give** | future | I | five roubles | thee | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | must | I | the halter | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent halter=Patient | | 6 | **fall** *in a quote* | past | the old man | a thinking | | | | | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient thinking=Result | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/130/) - next →: [sentence 132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/132/) - ↑ back to [Oh: the Tsar of the Forest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/)