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title: The prince looked at the trees, and said to his eldest son, "My dear… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince looked at the trees, and said to his eldest son, "My dear son, what wouldst thou make of those trees?" Who acts: prince, thou. 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 44

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The prince looked at the trees, and said to his eldest son, "My dear son, what wouldst thou make of those trees?"

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**Who acts:** prince, thou · **What happens:** look, say, make · **To what, where:** eldest son, dear son · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (prince, 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:pg29672:25:44
# text = The prince looked at the trees, and said to his eldest son, "My dear son, what wouldst thou make of those trees?"
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	obj	_	_
21	wouldst	would	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
23	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the prince |  |  |  |  | at the trees | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tree=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the prince *not said here* |  | Prince's eldest son |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to son=Recipient |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | would | thou | My dear son |  |  |  | of that trees | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset what=Product |

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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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