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title: And the dragon said to him, "Thou must in a single night weed out th… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the dragon said to him, "Thou must in a single night weed out this field and sow wheat in it, and reap the wheat and store it, all in this very night; and thou must bake me a roll out of this self-same wheat, and the roll must be lying ready for me on my table in the morning." Who acts: dragon, 
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 76

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And the dragon said to him, "Thou must in a single night weed out this field and sow wheat in it, and reap the wheat and store it, all in this very night; and thou must bake me a roll out of this self-same wheat, and the roll must be lying ready for me on my table in the morning."

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**Who acts:** dragon, thou, roll · **What happens:** say, wee out, sow, reap, store, bake · **To what, where:** Ivan, field, wheat, roll, dragon, same wheat · **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 (dragon, thou, roll), 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:pg29672:24:76
# text = And the dragon said to him, "Thou must in a single night weed out this field and sow wheat in it, and reap the wheat and store it, all in this very night; and thou must bake me a roll out of this self-same wheat, and the roll must be lying ready for me on my table in the morning."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	weed	wee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	sow	sow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	reap	reap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	store	store	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	det	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	nmod	_	_
36	very	very	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	42	nsubj	_	_
41	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	bake	bake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
43	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
46	out	out	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
48	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	52	det	_	_
49	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nsubj	_	_
57	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
58	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	aux	_	_
59	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	advcl	_	_
60	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	xcomp	_	_
61	for	for	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	60	obl	_	_
63	on	on	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	65	nmod:poss	_	_
65	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	_
66	in	in	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
67	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
68	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the dragon |  | Ivan |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 2 | **wee out** *in a quote* | past | the dragon *not said here* | this field |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sow** *in a quote* | present | the dragon *not said here* | wheat |  | wheat |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wheat=Theme in it=Destination |
| 4 | **reap** *in a quote* | infinitive | the dragon *not said here* | the wheat |  |  | night |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheat=Theme |
| 5 | **store** *in a quote* | infinitive | the dragon *not said here* | wheat |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **bake** *in a quote* | must | thou | a roll | the dragon *= dragon* | this same wheat |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary roll=Product |
| 7 | **lie** *in a quote* | must · progressive | the roll |  |  | my table | morning | ready *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=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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