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title: No, I gave them to thee once and for all, and now thou wouldst rip t… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: No, I gave them to thee once and for all, and now thou wouldst rip the whole thing up like a goat at the fair. Who acts: I, thou. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 197

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No, I gave them to thee once and for all, and now thou wouldst rip the whole thing up like a goat at the fair.

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**Who acts:** I, thou · **What happens:** give, rip up · **To what, where:** sack, whole thing, fair

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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, thou), 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:pg29672:3:197
# text = No, I gave them to thee once and for all, and now thou wouldst rip the whole thing up like a goat at the fair.
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	TO	_	7	case	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	obl	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
15	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
16	wouldst	would	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	rip	rip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	fair	fair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | I |  | sack |  |  | to thee; once *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to thou=Recipient |
| 2 | **rip up** | would | thou | the whole thing |  | the fair | now | like a goat | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |

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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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