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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 135

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Then the maiden who had become a fish said to the youth who had become a river, "Now that we are alive and not dead, go back to thy lord-father and thy father's house and see them, and kiss them all except the daughter of thy uncle, for if thou kiss that damsel thou wilt forget me, and I shall go to the land of Nowhere."

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**Who acts:** maiden, youth, we, thou, damsel, I · **What happens:** become, say, be, not be, go back, see · **To what, where:** fish, youth, river, me, land · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, youth, we, thou), 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:pg29672:24:135
# text = Then the maiden who had become a fish said to the youth who had become a river, "Now that we are alive and not dead, go back to thy lord-father and thy father's house and see them, and kiss them all except the daughter of thy uncle, for if thou kiss that damsel thou wilt forget me, and I shall go to the land of Nowhere."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
29	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
30	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	nmod:poss	_	_
33	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	's	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
43	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	kiss	kiss	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
47	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	47	nmod:unmarked	_	_
49	except	except	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
56	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
57	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
58	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	59	nsubj	_	_
59	kiss	kiss	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
60	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	64	mark	_	_
61	damsel	damsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nsubj	_	_
62	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	61	obj	_	_
63	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	64	aux	_	_
64	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	advcl	_	_
65	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	64	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	70	punct	_	_
67	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	70	cc	_	_
68	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	70	nsubj	_	_
69	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	70	aux	_	_
70	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
71	to	to	ADP	IN	_	73	case	_	_
72	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	73	det	_	_
73	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	70	obl	_	_
74	of	of	ADP	IN	_	75	case	_	_
75	Nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	73	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past · perfect | the maiden | a fish |  |  | then |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle |  | a fish *not said here* | the youth |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to youth=Recipient |
| 3 | **become** | past · perfect | the youth | a river |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  |  | now | alive *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **be** *in a quote* |  | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go back** *in a quote* | imperative | the youth *= youth* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to thy lord father and thy father's house *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to father=Result |
| 7 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | the youth *= youth* *not said here* | fish |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 8 | **kiss** *in a quote* | infinitive | the youth *= youth* *not said here* | fish |  |  |  | except the daughter of thy uncle | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
| 9 | **kiss** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **forget** *in a quote* | future | damsel | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **go** *in a quote* | shall | I |  |  | the land |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial\_Location |

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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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