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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 18

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Say," cried he, "what hast thou done with my brother?"--"Oh, dear little master! dear little master! let me go, let me go!

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**Who acts:** you, dear little master, me · **What happens:** say, cry, have, do, let, go · **To what, where:** fire, thou, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dear little master, me), 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:pg29672:22:18
# text = Say," cried he, "what hast thou done with my brother?"--"Oh, dear little master! dear little master! let me go, let me go!
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
9	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	obj	_	_
11	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
25	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
29	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past |  | fire |  |  |  | dear little master *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present |  | thou |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive | dear little master | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **let** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **go** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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