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title: The lady was about to go with it when Legless said, "Nay, but let th… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The lady was about to go with it when Legless said, "Nay, but let the Tsarivna give it to us with her own hands." Who acts: lady, Legless, Tsarivna. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 17

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The lady was about to go with it when Legless said, "Nay, but let the Tsarivna give it to us with her own hands."

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**Who acts:** lady, Legless, Tsarivna · **What happens:** be, go, say, let, give · **To what, where:** Tsarivna, money, us · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, Legless, Tsarivna), 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:pg29672:27:17
# text = The lady was about to go with it when Legless said, "Nay, but let the Tsarivna give it to us with her own hands."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	Legless	Legless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Tsarivna	Tsarivna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	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 lady |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | the lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with money | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Legless |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | the lady *not said here* | the Tsarivna |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Tsarivna *not said here* | money | us |  |  | with Tsarivna's own hands | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to we=Recipient |

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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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