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title: If I had only something like that I should lack nothing;" then, afte… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If I had only something like that I should lack nothing;" then, after thinking a long time, he said, "Sell it to me, my brother."--"No," said the poor man, "I will not sell it."--After a little time, however, the rich brother said again, "Come now! Who acts: I, brother, rich brother. A sentence of «
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 182

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If I had only something like that I should lack nothing;" then, after thinking a long time, he said, "Sell it to me, my brother."--"No," said the poor man, "I will not sell it."--After a little time, however, the rich brother said again, "Come now!

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**Who acts:** I, brother, rich brother · **What happens:** have, lack, think, say, sell, not sell · **To what, where:** something, nothing, lad, me, poor man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, brother, rich brother), 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:pg29672:3:182
# text = If I had only something like that I should lack nothing;" then, after thinking a long time, he said, "Sell it to me, my brother."--"No," said the poor man, "I will not sell it."--After a little time, however, the rich brother said again, "Come now!
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nmod	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	lack	lack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	40	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
40	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
45	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
47	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
48	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
49	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	conj	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	After	after	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
59	however	however	ADV	RB	_	64	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
62	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nsubj	_	_
64	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
65	again	again	ADV	RB	_	64	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
67	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	68	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	64	conj	_	_
69	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	68	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | I | something |  |  |  | like that | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 2 | **lack** | should | I | nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | gerund | brother *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | brother |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **sell** | infinitive |  | lad | me |  |  | my brother *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  | the poor man |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
| 7 | **not** **sell** | future | I | lad |  |  | time |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the rich brother |  |  |  | again | however *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **come** | infinitive | the rich brother *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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