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title: "Nay, weep not, my prince, but lie down to sleep, and by the morning… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Nay, weep not, my prince, but lie down to sleep, and by the morning light it will all be done!" Who acts: you, morning light. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 118

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"Nay, weep not, my prince, but lie down to sleep, and by the morning light it will all be done!"

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**Who acts:** you, morning light · **What happens:** not weep, lie down, sleep, do · **To what, where:** prince, light

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, morning light), 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:pg29672:25:118
# text = "Nay, weep not, my prince, but lie down to sleep, and by the morning light it will all be done!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	weep	weep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	lie	lie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	all	all	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **weep** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | my prince |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lie down** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sleep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | future · passive | the morning light | light |  |  |  | all *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |

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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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