--- title: Then Oh begged and prayed her yet more, and said, "Take what thou wi… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then Oh begged and prayed her yet more, and said, "Take what thou wilt of me, only give me back the ring."--"Nay, then," said the Tsarivna, "it shall be neither mine nor thine," and with that she tossed the ring upon the ground, and it turned into a heap of millet-seed and scattered all about the fl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/161/) [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/) / 161 # Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 161 Then Oh begged and prayed her yet more, and said, "Take what thou wilt of me, only give me back the ring."--"Nay, then," said the Tsarivna, "it shall be neither mine nor thine," and with that she tossed the ring upon the ground, and it turned into a heap of millet-seed and scattered all about the floor. **Who acts:** Tsarivna, ring, daughter · **What happens:** beg, pray, say, take, give back, be · **To what, where:** daughter, ring, me, Tsarivna, heap · **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 (Tsarivna, ring, daughter), 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:pg29672:2:161 # text = Then Oh begged and prayed her yet more, and said, "Take what thou wilt of me, only give me back the ring."--"Nay, then," said the Tsarivna, "it shall be neither mine nor thine," and with that she tossed the ring upon the ground, and it turned into a heap of millet-seed and scattered all about the floor. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ _ 3 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 prayed pray VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 yet yet ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 15 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 obj _ _ 16 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 nsubj _ _ 17 wilt will AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 only only ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 23 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 iobj _ _ 24 back back ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 -- -- PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 Nay nay INTJ UH _ 36 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 33 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 36 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Tsarivna Tsarivna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 40 " " PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 42 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 43 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 45 cop _ _ 44 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 45 cc:preconj _ _ 45 mine my PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 parataxis _ _ 46 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 47 cc _ _ 47 thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 45 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 51 with with ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 54 obl _ _ 53 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 54 tossed toss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obj _ _ 57 upon upon ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 61 and and CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 62 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 63 nsubj _ _ 63 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 64 into into ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 65 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 66 det _ _ 66 heap heap NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obl _ _ 67 of of ADP IN _ 70 case _ _ 68 millet millet NOUN NN Number=Sing 70 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 69 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 68 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 70 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 nmod _ _ 71 and and CCONJ CC _ 72 cc _ _ 72 scattered scatter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 63 conj _ _ 73 all all ADV RB _ 72 advmod _ _ 74 about about ADP IN _ 76 case _ _ 75 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 76 det _ _ 76 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 72 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 77 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | | | | | then | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **pray** | past | | daughter | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | | 5 | **give back** *in a quote* | infinitive | | the ring | me | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient ring=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Tsarivna | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | shall | ring | the Tsarivna *= tsarivna* | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **toss** | past | daughter | the ring | | | | with that; upon the ground | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Product with that=Material | | 9 | **turn** | past | ring | | | a heap of millet seed | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into heap=Trajectory | | 10 | **scatter** | past | ring *not said here* | | | | | about the floor; all *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme about floor=Destination | 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 160](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/160/) - next →: [sentence 162](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/162/) - ↑ back to [Oh: the Tsar of the Forest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/)