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title: Then Ivan Golik said to the prince, "Buy those two pike of the man,… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Ivan Golik said to the prince, "Buy those two pike of the man, and let them go into the sea again." Who acts: Ivan. 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 94

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Then Ivan Golik said to the prince, "Buy those two pike of the man, and let them go into the sea again."

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**Who acts:** Ivan · **What happens:** say, buy, let, go · **To what, where:** prince, two pike, IVAN, sea · **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 (Ivan), 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:pg29672:25:94
# text = Then Ivan Golik said to the prince, "Buy those two pike of the man, and let them go into the sea again."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Golik	Golik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
11	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	again	again	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	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 | Ivan |  | the prince |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **buy** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | that two pike of the man |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pike=Theme |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | IVAN |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | IVAN *not said here* |  |  | the sea | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into sea=Initial\_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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