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title: But he said to her, "Be not angry, but tell me, now, wherefore art t… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But he said to her, "Be not angry, but tell me, now, wherefore art thou so yellow?" Who acts: Legless. 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 19

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But he said to her, "Be not angry, but tell me, now, wherefore art thou so yellow?"

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**Who acts:** Legless · **What happens:** say, not be, tell · **To what, where:** Tsarivna, Legless · **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 (Legless), 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:pg29672:27:19
# text = But he said to her, "Be not angry, but tell me, now, wherefore art thou so yellow?"
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
19	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
20	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	obj	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	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 | Legless |  | Tsarivna |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | Legless |  | now |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=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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