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title: Perch! perch! turn thy head round toward me, I want to have a chat w… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Perch! perch! turn thy head round toward me, I want to have a chat with thee!" Who acts: Perch perch, I. 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 145

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Perch! perch! turn thy head round toward me, I want to have a chat with thee!"

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**Who acts:** Perch perch, I · **What happens:** turn, want, have · **To what, where:** head, chat

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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 (Perch perch, I), 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:pg29672:2:145
# text = Perch! perch! turn thy head round toward me, I want to have a chat with thee!"
1	Perch	perch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	perch	perch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	round	round	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | infinitive | Perch perch | thy head |  |  |  | toward me; round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme toward i=Trajectory |
| 2 | **want** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a chat |  |  |  | with thee | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chat=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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