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title: A halter of this kind is worth but three _grivni_[4] and the gipsy o… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A halter of this kind is worth but three _grivni_[4] and the gipsy offers me five roubles for it; let him have it." Who acts: halter, gipsy. 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 132

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A halter of this kind is worth but three \_grivni\_\[4\] and the gipsy offers me five roubles for it; let him have it."

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**Who acts:** halter, gipsy · **What happens:** be, offer, let, have · **To what, where:** five roubles, me, gipsy, halter

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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 (halter, gipsy), 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:pg29672:2:132
# text = A halter of this kind is worth but three _grivni_[4] and the gipsy offers me five roubles for it; let him have it."
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	halter	halter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	conj	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	grivni	grivni	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	gipsy	gipsy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	offers	offer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	roubles	rouble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
26	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a halter of this kind |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **offer** | present | the gipsy | five roubles | me |  |  | for halter | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal rouble=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | gipsy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | infinitive | gipsy *not said here* | halter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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