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title: The poor man was exceeding wrath thereat, and said, "Come what will,… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The poor man was exceeding wrath thereat, and said, "Come what will, I'll go seek the Wind, and I'll tell him with what pains and trouble I had got my corn to grow and ripen, and then he, forsooth! must needs come and blow it all away." Who acts: poor man, pains. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales a
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 4

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The poor man was exceeding wrath thereat, and said, "Come what will, I'll go seek the Wind, and I'll tell him with what pains and trouble I had got my corn to grow and ripen, and then he, forsooth! must needs come and blow it all away."

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**Who acts:** poor man, pains · **What happens:** exceed, say, come, go, seek, tell · **To what, where:** Wind, man, corn · **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 (poor man, pains), 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:pg29672:3:4
# text = The poor man was exceeding wrath thereat, and said, "Come what will, I'll go seek the Wind, and I'll tell him with what pains and trouble I had got my corn to grow and ripen, and then he, forsooth! must needs come and blow it all away."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	exceeding	exceed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	wrath	wrath	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	thereat	thereat	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
20	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	iobj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
31	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	acl:relcl	_	_
37	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	ripen	ripen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	48	advmod	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	forsooth	forsooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	48	punct	_	_
50	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
52	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	xcomp	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	conj	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obj	_	_
56	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	55	det	_	_
57	away	away	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exceed** | past · progressive | the poor man |  |  |  |  | thereat, wrath *property* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the poor man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | future | the poor man *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **seek** *in a quote* | infinitive | the poor man *= man* *not said here* | the Wind |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | the poor man *= man* |  | man |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 7 | **get** *in a quote* | past · perfect | pains and trouble | my corn |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer corn=Stimulus |
| 8 | **grow** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | pains and trouble *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **ripen** *in a quote* | infinitive | pains and trouble *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 10 | **need** *in a quote* | must |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 11 | **come** *not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 12 | **blow away** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Wind |  |  |  | away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=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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