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title: So when the pike came up to it, it said, "Perch! perch! turn thy hea… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So when the pike came up to it, it said, "Perch! perch! turn thy head toward me, I want to have a chat with thee!"--"I can hear thee very well as I am, dear cousin, if thou art inclined to chat," said the perch. Who acts: pike, perch. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar 
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 143

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So when the pike came up to it, it said, "Perch! perch! turn thy head toward me, I want to have a chat with thee!"--"I can hear thee very well as I am, dear cousin, if thou art inclined to chat," said the perch.

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**Who acts:** pike, perch · **What happens:** come up, say, turn, want, have, hear · **To what, where:** perch, head, chat, thee, dear cousin, thou · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (pike, perch), 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:pg29672:2:143
# text = So when the pike came up to it, it said, "Perch! perch! turn thy head toward me, I want to have a chat with thee!"--"I can hear thee very well as I am, dear cousin, if thou art inclined to chat," said the perch.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Perch	perch	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
16	perch	perch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
18	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	ccomp	_	_
19	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
39	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	38	obj	_	_
40	very	very	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	47	advmod	_	_
42	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
46	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
50	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	52	nsubj:pass	_	_
51	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux:pass	_	_
52	inclined	incline	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	57	ccomp	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
54	chat	chat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	52	punct	_	_
57	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	perch	perch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	57	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | past | the pike |  |  | perch |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | pike |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **turn** *in a quote* | infinitive | perch | thy head |  |  |  | toward the perch *= perch* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme toward i=Trajectory |
| 4 | **want** *in a quote* | present | the perch *= perch* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **have** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the perch *= perch* *not said here* | a chat |  |  |  | with thee | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chat=Patient |
| 6 | **hear** *in a quote* | can | the perch *= perch* | thee |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | dear cousin |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **incline** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · passive |  | thou |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **chat** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the perch |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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