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title: Very good!" said he, "but now let us go to dinner, for my guests are… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Very good!" said he, "but now let us go to dinner, for my guests are many, and we have been waiting for thee this long time." Who acts: serpent, us, we. 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 cla
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 44

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Very good!" said he, "but now let us go to dinner, for my guests are many, and we have been waiting for thee this long time."

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**Who acts:** serpent, us, we · **What happens:** say, let, go, be, wait · **To what, where:** us, dinner · **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, us, we), 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:pg29672:26:44
# text = Very good!" said he, "but now let us go to dinner, for my guests are many, and we have been waiting for thee this long time."
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	aux	_	_
27	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	parataxis	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	obl	_	_
30	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
31	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | serpent |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  | dinner |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to dinner=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for my guests; many *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **wait** | present · perfect · progressive | we |  |  |  | time | for thee | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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