--- title: Thou mayst take hold of me if thou wilt, and draw me out of the top… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Thou mayst take hold of me if thou wilt, and draw me out of the top of the hut, near the front gable; and wherever I fall into the marshy ground, there set to work and dig with me!" Who acts: Thou, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou, I), 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:pg29672:4:100 # text = Thou mayst take hold of me if thou wilt, and draw me out of the top of the hut, near the front gable; and wherever I fall into the marshy ground, there set to work and dig with me!" 1 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nsubj _ _ 2 mayst may AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 hold hold NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nmod _ _ 7 if if SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 nsubj _ _ 9 wilt will AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 draw draw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 13 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 out out ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 hut hut NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 near near ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 gable gable NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 28 wherever wherever ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 fall fall VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 marshy marshy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 36 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 37 expl _ _ 37 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 dig dig VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 conj _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | may | Thou | hold of me | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | | 2 | **draw** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | me | | the top of the hut and the front gable | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme out top=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **fall** | present | I | | | | | into the marshy ground *result*; wherever *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into ground=Result | | 4 | **set** | participle | Thou *not said here* | | | there | | | tree rules | | 5 | **work** | to-infinitive | Thou *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **dig** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | | | | | with me | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with i=Instrument | | 7 | **hold** | | | me | | | | | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/99/) - next →: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/101/) - ↑ back to [The Voices At the Window, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/)