--- title: "Well, dear father," said he, "had I only as much power as will, I w… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Well, dear father," said he, "had I only as much power as will, I would cut down the middle oak, lay it across the other two, and hang up every prince and every noble in the wide world." Who acts: dear father, father. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear father, father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29672:25:50 # text = "Well, dear father," said he, "had I only as much power as will, I would cut down the middle oak, lay it across the other two, and hang up every prince and every noble in the wide world." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 only only ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 as as ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 18 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 24 down down ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 oak oak NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 across across ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 hang hang VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 38 up up ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 39 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 40 det _ _ 40 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 43 det _ _ 43 noble noble NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | dear father | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | past | father | dear father *= father* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **cut down** *in a quote* | would | dear father *= father* | the middle oak | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oak=Product | | 4 | **lay** *in a quote* | infinitive | dear father *= father* *not said here* | power | | the other two | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result | | 5 | **hang up** *in a quote* | infinitive | dear father *= father* *not said here* | every prince and every noble | | the wide world | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent prince=Theme in world=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/25/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/25/51/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/25/)