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title: Give her the little golden apple, and let her be off as quickly as p… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Give her the little golden apple, and let her be off as quickly as possible, for her husband is about to marry another wife." Who acts: you, husband. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 102

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Give her the little golden apple, and let her be off as quickly as possible, for her husband is about to marry another wife."

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**Who acts:** you, husband · **What happens:** give, let off, be, marry · **To what, where:** little golden apple, Moon, wife

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, husband), 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:pg29672:20:102
# text = Give her the little golden apple, and let her be off as quickly as possible, for her husband is about to marry another wife."
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | the little golden apple | Moon |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient apple=Theme |
| 2 | **let off** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Moon |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | Moon's husband |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **marry** | to-infinitive | Moon's husband *not said here* | another wife |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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