--- title: Thou dost nothing at all but go away and drink, and then thou comest… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Thou dost nothing at all but go away and drink, and then thou comest home and dost talk nonsense, and bringest sacks and rams with thee, and knockest down our little hut."--At this the husband could control his rage no longer, but shrieked at the ram, "Little ram, little ram, scatter money!"--But th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/108/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / [The Story of the Wind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/) / 108 # Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 108 Thou dost nothing at all but go away and drink, and then thou comest home and dost talk nonsense, and bringest sacks and rams with thee, and knockest down our little hut."--At this the husband could control his rage no longer, but shrieked at the ram, "Little ram, little ram, scatter money!"--But the ram only stood there and stared at him. **Who acts:** Thou, husband, ram · **What happens:** do, go away, drink, come, talk, bring · **To what, where:** nothing, all, nonsense, sacks, little hut, rage · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou, husband, ram), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29672:3:108 # text = Thou dost nothing at all but go away and drink, and then thou comest home and dost talk nonsense, and bringest sacks and rams with thee, and knockest down our little hut."--At this the husband could control his rage no longer, but shrieked at the ram, "Little ram, little ram, scatter money!"--But the ram only stood there and stared at him. 1 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 2 nsubj _ _ 2 dost do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 2 obj _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 nmod _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 8 away away ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 14 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nsubj _ _ 15 comest come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 home home ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 dost do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 19 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 20 nonsense nonsense NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 bringest bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 24 sacks sack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 rams ram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 knockest knock VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 32 down down ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 hut hut NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 -- -- PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 At at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 44 obl _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 43 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 control control VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 rage rage NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 47 no no ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 44 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 50 but but CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 shrieked shriek VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 52 at at ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 ram ram NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 56 " " PUNCT `` _ 58 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 57 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 amod _ _ 58 ram ram NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 60 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 amod _ _ 61 ram ram NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 63 scatter scat ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 64 amod _ _ 64 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 65 ! ! PUNCT . _ 64 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 66 " " PUNCT '' _ 64 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 67 -- -- PUNCT , _ 72 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 68 But but CCONJ CC _ 72 cc _ _ 69 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 70 det _ _ 70 ram ram NOUN NN Number=Sing 72 nsubj _ _ 71 only only ADV RB _ 72 advmod _ _ 72 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 51 conj _ _ 73 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 72 advmod _ _ 74 and and CCONJ CC _ 75 cc _ _ 75 stared stare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 72 conj _ _ 76 at at ADP IN _ 77 case _ _ 77 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 75 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 78 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | Thou | nothing | | all | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go away** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **drink** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **come** | present | thou | | | | then | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **do** | present | thou *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **talk** | present | thou *not said here* | nonsense | | | | | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent nonsense=Patient | | 7 | **bring** | present | Thou *not said here* | sacks and rams | | | | with thee | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sack=Theme | | 8 | **knock down** | present | Thou *not said here* | our little hut | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hut=Patient | | 9 | **control** *in a quote* | could | the husband | husband's rage | | this | | long *property* | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rage=Theme | | 10 | **shriek** *in a quote* | past | | | | the ram and Little ram and little ram | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at ram=Location | | 11 | **stand** *in a quote* | past | the ram | | | there | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 12 | **stare** *in a quote* | past | the ram *not said here* | | | | | at husband | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | | 13 | **rage** *in a quote* | | husband | | | | | | nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/107/) - next →: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/109/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Wind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/)