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title: Let him walk round them a third time, and then I'll settle on her no… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Let him walk round them a third time, and then I'll settle on her nose, and she will not be able to endure my bite, but will strike at me with her right hand." Who acts: you, prince, I, mare. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, with its dependen
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 113

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Let him walk round them a third time, and then I'll settle on her nose, and she will not be able to endure my bite, but will strike at me with her right hand."

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**Who acts:** you, prince, I, mare, my · **What happens:** let, walk, settle, not be, endure, strike · **To what, where:** prince, bite

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, prince, I, mare), 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:pg29672:26:113
# text = Let him walk round them a third time, and then I'll settle on her nose, and she will not be able to endure my bite, but will strike at me with her right hand."
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	round	round	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	endure	endure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	strike	strike	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** | infinitive | prince *not said here* |  |  |  | time | round daughters *= daughter* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round they=Trajectory |
| 3 | **settle** | future | I |  |  |  | then | on mare's nose | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on nose=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **is** | future | mare |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **endure** | to-infinitive | mare *not said here* | my bite |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bite=Circumstance |
| 6 | **strike** | future | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at me; with mare's right hand | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent at i=Patient with hand=Instrument |
| 7 | **bite** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom bite «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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