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title: Fools are neither sown nor reaped, but grow of their own accord--has… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Fools are neither sown nor reaped, but grow of their own accord--hast thou not been into a tavern?"--"I have not," said the man.--"Thou hast not? Who acts: I, man, Thou. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 76

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Fools are neither sown nor reaped, but grow of their own accord--hast thou not been into a tavern?"--"I have not," said the man.--"Thou hast not?

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**Who acts:** I, man, Thou · **What happens:** sow, reap, grow, have, not be, not have · **To what, where:** Fools, thou, tavern · **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, man, 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:pg29672:3:76
# text = Fools are neither sown nor reaped, but grow of their own accord--hast thou not been into a tavern?"--"I have not," said the man.--"Thou hast not?
1	Fools	fool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	sown	sow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	ccomp	_	_
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	6	cc	_	_
6	reaped	reap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	accord	accord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obj	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	tavern	tavern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
31	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	38	nsubj	_	_
38	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sow** | present · passive |  | Fools |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **reap** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grow** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of Fools's own accord | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present |  | thou |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **is** | participle |  |  |  | a tavern |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **have** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **not** **have** | present | Thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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