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title: Then the prince said, "Did I not tell you? and was I to put myself t… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 68

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Then the prince said, "Did I not tell you? and was I to put myself to shame by touching a bow that one of my servants can draw?"

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**Who acts:** prince, one · **What happens:** say, not tell, be, shame, touch, draw · **To what, where:** you, bow · **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 (prince, one), 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:pg29672:26:68
# text = Then the prince said, "Did I not tell you? and was I to put myself to shame by touching a bow that one of my servants can draw?"
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	shame	shame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
21	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the prince |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past · do-support | the prince *= prince* |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the prince *= prince* |  |  |  |  | put *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **shame** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the prince *= prince* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **touch** *in a quote* | gerund | the prince *= prince* *not said here* | a bow |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bow=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **draw** *in a quote* | can | one of my servants |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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