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title: He went off to the wars, and perchance he has been slain there."--An… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He went off to the wars, and perchance he has been slain there."--And he answered them, "I have seen him, and if you will give me the magic egg, I will bring him before your eyes."--And the eagle's father said to him, "What good will such a thing do thee? Who acts: eagle, I, you, father. A sentence 
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 59

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He went off to the wars, and perchance he has been slain there."--And he answered them, "I have seen him, and if you will give me the magic egg, I will bring him before your eyes."--And the eagle's father said to him, "What good will such a thing do thee?

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**Who acts:** eagle, I, you, father, thing · **What happens:** go off, slay, answer, see, give, bring · **To what, where:** perchance, bones, eagle, magic egg, me, eyes · **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 (eagle, I, you, father), 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:pg29672:24:59
# text = He went off to the wars, and perchance he has been slain there."--And he answered them, "I have seen him, and if you will give me the magic egg, I will bring him before your eyes."--And the eagle's father said to him, "What good will such a thing do thee?
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	perchance	perchance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	ccomp	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	advcl	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	iobj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
39	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
42	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	before	before	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	's	's	PART	POS	_	51	case	_	_
53	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
54	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
55	to	to	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
58	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	65	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	65	obj	_	_
60	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
61	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	65	aux	_	_
62	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	64	det:predet	_	_
63	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	nsubj	_	_
65	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	conj	_	_
66	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	65	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go off** | past | eagle |  |  |  |  | to the wars | tree rules |
| 2 | **slay** | present · perfect · passive |  | perchance |  | there |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | eagle |  | bones *= bone* |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | present · perfect | I | eagle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | the magic egg | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient egg=Theme |
| 6 | **bring** | future | I | eagle |  | your eyes |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme before eye=Destination |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the eagle's father |  | eagle |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 8 | **do** | future | such thing | thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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