--- title: So the man went home and made ready to go, and as he was making read… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So the man went home and made ready to go, and as he was making ready his wife said to him, "Whither away, husband?"--"I am going to seek the Wind," said he; "what dost thou say to that?"--"I should say, do no such thing," replied his wife. " Who acts: man, ready wife, wife. 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" **Who acts:** man, ready wife, wife · **What happens:** go, make, say, seek, do, reply · **To what, where:** man, Wind, thou, that, such thing · **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 (man, ready wife, wife), 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:pg29672:3:5 # text = So the man went home and made ready to go, and as he was making ready his wife said to him, "Whither away, husband?"--"I am going to seek the Wind," said he; "what dost thou say to that?"--"I should say, do no such thing," replied his wife. " 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 home home ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 as as SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 17 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 Whither whither ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 26 away away ADV RB _ 20 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ? ? PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 -- -- PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 ccomp _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 42 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ; ; PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 " " PUNCT `` _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 47 obj _ _ 47 dost do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 ccomp _ _ 48 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 47 obj _ _ 49 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 47 xcomp _ _ 50 to to ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ? ? PUNCT . _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 " " PUNCT '' _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 -- -- PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 " " PUNCT `` _ 58 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 58 nsubj _ _ 57 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 58 aux _ _ 58 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 60 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 58 conj _ _ 61 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 63 det _ _ 62 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 63 amod _ _ 63 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 64 , , PUNCT , _ 66 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 65 " " PUNCT '' _ 66 punct _ _ 66 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 67 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 68 nmod:poss _ _ 68 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 69 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 70 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the man | | | | | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **make** | past | the man *not said here* | | | | | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | the man *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **make** | past · progressive | man | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man's ready wife | | man | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | | 6 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | man | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **seek** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | the Wind | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme | | 8 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | man | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **do** *in a quote* | present | | thou | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | | | that | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to that=Recipient | | 11 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | should | man | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 12 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | man *not said here* | no such thing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 13 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | man's wife | | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/6/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Wind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/)