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title: If thou canst find it to-morrow, and bring it hither while we are si… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If thou canst find it to-morrow, and bring it hither while we are sitting down to meat, thou shalt remain alive; if not, 'tis all over with thee!" Who acts: thou, you, we. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 9

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If thou canst find it to-morrow, and bring it hither while we are sitting down to meat, thou shalt remain alive; if not, 'tis all over with thee!"

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**Who acts:** thou, you, we · **What happens:** find, bring, sit down, remain · **To what, where:** water

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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 (thou, you, 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:pg29672:26:9
# text = If thou canst find it to-morrow, and bring it hither while we are sitting down to meat, thou shalt remain alive; if not, 'tis all over with thee!"
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	canst	can	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nsubj	_	_
23	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
25	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	tis	tis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
32	all	all	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	over	over	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	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 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | thou | water |  |  |  | to morrow | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **bring** | imperative | you *not said here* | water |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **sit down** | present · progressive | we |  |  |  |  | to meat; down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **remain** | shall | thou |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | 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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