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title: Think of that, dear husband, and go not at all."--"I mean to go," re… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Think of that, dear husband, and go not at all."--"I mean to go," replied the man, "though I never return home again." Who acts: you, I. 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 8

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Think of that, dear husband, and go not at all."--"I mean to go," replied the man, "though I never return home again."

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** think, not go, mean, go, reply, not return · **To what, where:** all, 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 (you, I), 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:pg29672:3:8
# text = Think of that, dear husband, and go not at all."--"I mean to go," replied the man, "though I never return home again."
1	Think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
23	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	return	return	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
32	home	home	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	again	again	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of that | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **go** | infinitive |  |  |  | all |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location |
| 3 | **mean** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **reply** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  | the man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **return** | present | I |  |  |  | again | home *property* | 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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