--- title: But as they swam away, the pike turned round and said, "We thank the… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But as they swam away, the pike turned round and said, "We thank thee, Ivan Golik, that thou hast not let us perish, and it shall be to thy weal and welfare!" Who acts: IVAN, pike, We, that. 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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 (IVAN, pike, We, that), 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:pg29672:25:98 # text = But as they swam away, the pike turned round and said, "We thank thee, Ivan Golik, that thou hast not let us perish, and it shall be to thy weal and welfare!" 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 swam swim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 5 away away ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 pike pike NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 round round ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 17 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Ivan Ivan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 vocative _ _ 20 Golik Golik PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 nsubj:outer _ _ 23 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 nsubj _ _ 24 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 27 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 perish perish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 32 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 cop _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 weal weal NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 welfare welfare NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ! ! PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swim away** | past | IVAN | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **turn round** | past | the pike | | | | | round *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the pike *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | We | thee | | | | Ivan *vocative* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | | 5 | **not** **let** *in a quote* | present | that | us | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **perish** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | shall | pike | | | | | to thy weal and welfare | tree rules | 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 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/25/97/) - next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/25/99/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/25/)