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title: I will turn myself into a greyhound and catch the fox, then the youn… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I will turn myself into a greyhound and catch the fox, then the young noblemen will want to buy me of thee, and thou must sell me to them for three hundred roubles--only, mind thou sell me without a chain; then we shall have lots of money at home, and will live happily together!" Who acts: I, young 
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 95

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I will turn myself into a greyhound and catch the fox, then the young noblemen will want to buy me of thee, and thou must sell me to them for three hundred roubles--only, mind thou sell me without a chain; then we shall have lots of money at home, and will live happily together!"

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**Who acts:** I, young noblemen, thou, we · **What happens:** turn, catch, want, buy, sell, mind · **To what, where:** myself, fox, me, thou, lots, home

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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 (I, young noblemen, thou, we), 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:pg29672:2:95
# text = I will turn myself into a greyhound and catch the fox, then the young noblemen will want to buy me of thee, and thou must sell me to them for three hundred roubles--only, mind thou sell me without a chain; then we shall have lots of money at home, and will live happily together!"
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	noblemen	nobleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nsubj	_	_
27	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	iobj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	compound	_	_
34	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	roubles	rouble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	only	only	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
40	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	39	obj	_	_
41	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	iobj	_	_
43	without	without	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
47	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	50	advmod	_	_
48	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
51	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
54	at	at	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
58	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
59	live	live	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	50	parataxis	_	_
60	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
61	together	together	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | future | I | myself |  |  |  | into a greyhound *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent myself=Theme into greyhound=Result |
| 2 | **catch** | infinitive | I *not said here* | the fox |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Theme |
| 3 | **want** | future | the young noblemen |  |  |  | then |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **buy** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the young noblemen *not said here* |  | me |  |  | of thee | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 5 | **sell** | must | thou |  | me |  |  | to noblemen *= nobleman*; for hundred roubles | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Theme to they=Recipient for rouble=Asset |
| 6 | **mind** | infinitive | I *not said here* | thou |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **sell** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  | me |  |  | without a chain | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 8 | **have** | shall | we | lots of money |  | home | then |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient |
| 9 | **live** | future |  |  |  |  |  | happily, together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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