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title: Then he took off his gold ring, and said to the man, "Thou didst get… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he took off his gold ring, and said to the man, "Thou didst get the feather of the bird Zhar, get me also this golden ring of mine out of the vat of boiling milk!"--"Bring hither, then, my faithful horse," said he, "that he may see his master plunge into the vat of boiling milk and die!" Who ac
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 193

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Then he took off his gold ring, and said to the man, "Thou didst get the feather of the bird Zhar, get me also this golden ring of mine out of the vat of boiling milk!"--"Bring hither, then, my faithful horse," said he, "that he may see his master plunge into the vat of boiling milk and die!"

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**Who acts:** brother, Thou · **What happens:** take off, say, do, get, bring, see · **To what, where:** gold ring, man, feather, golden ring, brother, master plunge · **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 (brother, 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:pg29672:24:193
# text = Then he took off his gold ring, and said to the man, "Thou didst get the feather of the bird Zhar, get me also this golden ring of mine out of the vat of boiling milk!"--"Bring hither, then, my faithful horse," said he, "that he may see his master plunge into the vat of boiling milk and die!"
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	gold	gold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
17	didst	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	also	also	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
30	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	vat	vat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	boiling	boiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
46	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
48	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	52	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
51	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
55	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
58	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	62	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	62	mark	_	_
60	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
61	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	62	aux	_	_
62	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	conj	_	_
63	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	65	nmod:poss	_	_
64	master	master	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	amod	_	_
65	plunge	plunge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obj	_	_
66	into	into	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
67	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
68	vat	vat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	_
69	of	of	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
70	boiling	boiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	71	compound	_	_
71	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	nmod	_	_
72	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	73	cc	_	_
73	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	62	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take off** | past | brother | brother's gold ring |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | brother *not said here* |  | the man |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | the feather of the bird |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feather=Stimulus |
| 5 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | this golden ring of mine | brother |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary ring=Theme |
| 6 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **say** *speech: express* | past | brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **see** *in a quote* | may | brother | brother's master plunge |  | the vat of boiling milk |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plunge=Stimulus |
| 9 | **die** *in a quote* | infinitive | brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 10 | **plunge** *in a quote* |  | brother |  |  |  |  |  | nom plunge «act transitive»: poss=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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