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title: The dove thou shalt choose must be the one that comes not out, but r… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The dove thou shalt choose must be the one that comes not out, but remains sitting beneath the pear-tree pruning its feathers; that will be thy son." Who acts: thou, dove, one, remains. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 76

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The dove thou shalt choose must be the one that comes not out, but remains sitting beneath the pear-tree pruning its feathers; that will be thy son."

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**Who acts:** thou, dove, one, remains, that · **What happens:** choose, be, not come out, sit, prune · **To what, where:** dove, one, pear tree, feathers, son

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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 (thou, dove, one, remains), 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:pg29672:2:76
# text = The dove thou shalt choose must be the one that comes not out, but remains sitting beneath the pear-tree pruning its feathers; that will be thy son."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
13	out	out	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	remains	remains	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	9	parataxis	_	_
17	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	pear	pear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	pruning	prune	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
30	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | shall | thou | the dove *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | must | the dove | the one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **come out** | present | the one |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **sit** | gerund | remains *not said here* |  |  | the pear tree |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath tree=Location |
| 5 | **prune** | gerund | remains *not said here* | tree's feathers |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient |
| 6 | **is a** | future | that | thy son |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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