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title: At last the mouse said, "At any rate, let me have the first nibble!" — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At last the mouse said, "At any rate, let me have the first nibble!" Who acts: mouse. 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 6

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At last the mouse said, "At any rate, let me have the first nibble!"

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**Who acts:** mouse · **What happens:** say, let, have · **To what, where:** last, mouse, rate, first nibble · **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 (mouse), 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:pg29672:24:6
# text = At last the mouse said, "At any rate, let me have the first nibble!"
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	At	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	amod	_	_
17	nibble	nibble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the mouse |  |  | last |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the mouse *= mouse* |  | any rate |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | infinitive | the mouse *= mouse* *not said here* | the first nibble |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nibble=Patient |

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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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