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title: And she said to the Empress, "Let me watch by him for this apple but… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And she said to the Empress, "Let me watch by him for this apple but one night more, and I'll never ask again!" Who acts: Empress. 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 130

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And she said to the Empress, "Let me watch by him for this apple but one night more, and I'll never ask again!"

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**Who acts:** Empress · **What happens:** say, let, watch, not ask · **To what, where:** Empress · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Empress), 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:pg29672:20:130
# text = And she said to the Empress, "Let me watch by him for this apple but one night more, and I'll never ask again!"
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Empress	Empress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
27	again	again	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Empress |  | the Empress |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to empress=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Empress |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **watch** *in a quote* | infinitive | Empress *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by husband; for this apple | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent by he=Location for apple=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | future | Empress |  |  |  | again |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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