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title: Why, they'll think me a mere pagan if I don't!" — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Why, they'll think me a mere pagan if I don't!" Who acts: fish, I. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 137

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Why, they'll think me a mere pagan if I don't!"

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**Who acts:** fish, I · **What happens:** think, not do · **To what, where:** me

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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 (fish, I), 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:pg29672:24:137
# text = Why, they'll think me a mere pagan if I don't!"
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	mere	mere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	pagan	pagan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | future | fish | me |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme pagan=Attribute |
| 2 | **not** **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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