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title: The nobleman was wrath, and cried, "Cut me down that son of a dog!" — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The nobleman was wrath, and cried, "Cut me down that son of a dog!" Who acts: nobleman. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 33

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The nobleman was wrath, and cried, "Cut me down that son of a dog!"

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**Who acts:** nobleman · **What happens:** be, cry, cut down · **To what, where:** wrath, son, nobleman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobleman), 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:pg29672:4:33
# text = The nobleman was wrath, and cried, "Cut me down that son of a dog!"
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	det	_	_
14	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the nobleman and wrath *not said here* | wrath |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the nobleman and wrath |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **cut down** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | that son of a dog | the nobleman and wrath *= nobleman* |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary son=Product |

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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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