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title: She is too young!" said they.--Then the youngest daughter said, "Ye… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She is too young!" said they.--Then the youngest daughter said, "Ye fools, not to take me too! Who acts: woman, damsels, youngest daughter, Ye. 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 64

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She is too young!" said they.--Then the youngest daughter said, "Ye fools, not to take me too!

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**Who acts:** woman, damsels, youngest daughter, Ye · **What happens:** be, say, fool, not take · **To what, where:** me · **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 (woman, damsels, youngest daughter, Ye), 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:pg29672:20:64
# text = She is too young!" said they.--Then the youngest daughter said, "Ye fools, not to take me too!
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
19	fools	fool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | woman |  |  |  |  | young *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | damsels *= damsel* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the youngest daughter |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **fool** |  | Ye |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **take** | to-infinitive |  |  | me |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |

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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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