--- title: However caressing she may be, thou shalt not let her ears know the t… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: However caressing she may be, thou shalt not let her ears know the truth, for if thou _dost_ tell her the truth, both thou and I shall perish!" Who acts: thou, wife, ears, I. 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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 (thou, wife, ears, I), 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:pg29672:26:129 # text = However caressing she may be, thou shalt not let her ears know the truth, for if thou _dost_ tell her the truth, both thou and I shall perish!" 1 However however ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 caressing caress VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 10 nsubj _ _ 8 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 for for SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 21 nsubj _ _ 20 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 dost do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 22 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 23 punct _ _ 23 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 24 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 iobj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 both both CCONJ CC _ 29 cc:preconj _ _ 29 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 ccomp _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 perish perish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ! ! PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **caress** | gerund | thou *not said here* | | | | | however *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | may | wife | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **let** | shall | thou | wife | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 4 | **know** | present | ears | the truth | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer truth=Stimulus | | 5 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | thou | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | thou *not said here* | the truth | wife | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient truth=Topic | | 7 | **perish** | shall | I | | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | 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 128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/26/128/) - next →: [sentence 130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/26/130/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/26/)