--- title: At last she said to herself, "I'll go out and call them home, for th… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: At last she said to herself, "I'll go out and call them home, for the cock is roasting, and the milk pottage is simmering, and 'tis high time we had something to eat." Who acts: fox, cock, milk pottage, we. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, cock, milk pottage, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29672:20:46 # text = At last she said to herself, "I'll go out and call them home, for the cock is roasting, and the milk pottage is simmering, and 'tis high time we had something to eat." 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 12 out out ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 home home ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 for for SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 roasting roast VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 pottage pottage NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 simmering simmer VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 tis ti NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 parataxis _ _ 34 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 36 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 37 obj _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | fox | | fox | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **go out** *in a quote* | future | fox | | | | | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** *in a quote* | infinitive | fox *not said here* | daughters *= daughter* | | | | home *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 4 | **roast** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the cock | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **simmer** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the milk pottage | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | past | we | something | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | | 7 | **eat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | something *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/20/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/20/47/) - ↑ back to [The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/20/)