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description: The serpent was amazed, but said, "Since thou hast found out thy bride, we'll wed thee to-day, and all be merry together." Who acts: serpent, thou, we, all. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 123

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The serpent was amazed, but said, "Since thou hast found out thy bride, we'll wed thee to-day, and all be merry together."

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**Who acts:** serpent, thou, we, all · **What happens:** be, say, find out, wed · **To what, where:** bride, thee · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (serpent, thou, we, all), 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:pg29672:26:123
# text = The serpent was amazed, but said, "Since thou hast found out thy bride, we'll wed thee to-day, and all be merry together."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	amazed	amazed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
12	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	wed	wed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
21	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	nsubj	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
29	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
30	together	together	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the serpent |  |  |  |  | amazed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **find out** *in a quote* | present · perfect | thou | thy bride |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Topic |
| 4 | **wed** *in a quote* | future | we | thee |  |  | day |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | all |  |  |  |  | merry, together *property* | 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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