--- title: Wilt thou be my bride?"--"I will!"--"Then take off one of thy skins!… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Wilt thou be my bride?"--"I will!"--"Then take off one of thy skins!" cried he.--"Yes," she said, "but thou must do the same."--So he cast off one of his skins, and she cast off one of her twenty suits of clothes. Who acts: thou, bride, Hail. 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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 (thou, bride, Hail), 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:pg29672:20:69 # text = Wilt thou be my bride?"--"I will!"--"Then take off one of thy skins!" cried he.--"Yes," she said, "but thou must do the same."--So he cast off one of his skins, and she cast off one of her twenty suits of clothes. 1 Wilt will AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 2 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 nsubj _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 -- -- PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ! ! PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 -- -- PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 17 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 18 off off ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 skins skin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 25 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 -- -- PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 34 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 but but CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 40 nsubj _ _ 39 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 -- -- PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 So so ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 47 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 cast cast VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 49 off off ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 48 obl _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 53 nmod:poss _ _ 53 skins skin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 56 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 57 cast cast VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 58 off off ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 59 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 57 obl _ _ 60 of of ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 61 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 63 nmod:poss _ _ 62 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 63 nummod _ _ 63 suits suit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 59 nmod _ _ 64 of of ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 65 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 63 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | future | thou | my bride | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take off** | future | | one of thy skins | | | then | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 3 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | my bride | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | bride | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **do** | must | thou | the same | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality | | 6 | **cast off** *in a quote* | past | Hail | one of Hail's skins | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Product | | 7 | **cast off** *in a quote* | past | bride | one of bride's twenty suits of clothes | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Product | 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 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/20/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/20/70/) - ↑ back to [The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/20/)