--- title: If I find him, I will turn back; if I don't find him, I shall go on… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: If I find him, I will turn back; if I don't find him, I shall go on and on till I do."--"What dost thou want with the Wind?" asked the old giant lying on the floor. " Who acts: I, thou, man, old giant. 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" **Who acts:** I, thou, man, old giant · **What happens:** find, turn back, not find, go, do, want · **To what, where:** man, old giant, floor · **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 (I, thou, man, old giant), 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:pg29672:3:17 # text = If I find him, I will turn back; if I don't find him, I shall go on and on till I do."--"What dost thou want with the Wind?" asked the old giant lying on the floor. " 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 back back ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 11 if if SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 14 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 21 on on ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 on on ADV RB _ 21 conj _ _ 24 till till SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 -- -- PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 34 obj _ _ 32 dost do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 34 nsubj _ _ 34 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 ccomp _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 Wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ? ? PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 40 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 44 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 43 acl _ _ 45 on on ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | man | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | | 2 | **turn back** | future | I | | | | | | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | I | man | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | | 4 | **go** | shall | I | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **do** | present | I | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **want** | present · do-support | thou | | | | | with the Wind | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | | 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | past | the man *= man* *not said here* | | the old giant | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent giant=Recipient clause=Topic | | 8 | **lie** *in a quote* | gerund | the old giant *not said here* | | | the floor | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location | 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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/18/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Wind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/)