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title: My first and faithful wife goes a-seeking her husband throughout the… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: My first and faithful wife goes a-seeking her husband throughout the wide world, while my accursed second wife, Empress though she be, sells her husband for three apples!" Who acts: first wife. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, with its dependency tr
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 138

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My first and faithful wife goes a-seeking her husband throughout the wide world, while my accursed second wife, Empress though she be, sells her husband for three apples!"

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**Who acts:** first wife · **What happens:** go, seek, accurs, sell · **To what, where:** seeking husband, husband

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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 (first wife), 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:pg29672:20:138
# text = My first and faithful wife goes a-seeking her husband throughout the wide world, while my accursed second wife, Empress though she be, sells her husband for three apples!"
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	accursed	accurs	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
20	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
21	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	Empress	empress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
24	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	sells	sell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | My first wife | woman's seeking husband |  |  | throughout the wide world | wife Empress *obl* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location husband=Theme |
| 2 | **seek** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **accurs** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sell** | present |  | woman's husband |  |  |  | for three apples | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent husband=Theme for apple=Asset |

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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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