--- title: So they called the damsel, and Oh began to beg her to give it back t… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So they called the damsel, and Oh began to beg her to give it back to him, "for I may not live in this world if I bring not the ring," said he. Who acts: man, Tsar. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/157/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / [Oh: the Tsar of the Forest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/) / 157 # Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 157 So they called the damsel, and Oh began to beg her to give it back to him, "for I may not live in this world if I bring not the ring," said he. **Who acts:** man, Tsar · **What happens:** call, begin, beg, give back, not live, not bring · **To what, where:** damsel, daughter, Tsar, world, ring · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (man, Tsar), 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:pg29672:2:157 # text = So they called the damsel, and Oh began to beg her to give it back to him, "for I may not live in this world if I bring not the ring," said he. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 damsel damsel NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 9 discourse _ _ 9 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 beg beg VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 back back ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 for for SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 28 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 if if SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 bring bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 37 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | past | man | the damsel | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent damsel=Recipient | | 2 | **begin** | past | man *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | | daughter | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **give back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | damsel | Tsar | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient | | 5 | **not** **live** *in a quote* | may | man | | | this world | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location | | 6 | **not** **bring** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | man | the ring | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Tsar | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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 156](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/156/) - next →: [sentence 158](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/158/) - ↑ back to [Oh: the Tsar of the Forest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/)