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title: Perish!" cried he, "for 'tis but just that such a wretch as thou sho… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Perish!" cried he, "for 'tis but just that such a wretch as thou shouldst perish!" Who acts: Perish, that, 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 54

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Perish!" cried he, "for 'tis but just that such a wretch as thou shouldst perish!"

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**Who acts:** Perish, that, thou · **What happens:** cry, wretch, perish · **To what, where:** wretch

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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 (Perish, that, 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:pg29672:25:54
# text = Perish!" cried he, "for 'tis but just that such a wretch as thou shouldst perish!"
1	Perish	Perish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	tis	tis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
14	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	16	det:predet	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wretch	wretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shouldst	should	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | Perish |  |  |  |  | for tis but such wretch | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for tis=Recipient |
| 2 | **wretch** |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **perish** | should | thou | such wretch *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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