---
title: But the nobleman was very wrath, and cried, "Shoot me down that son… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the nobleman was very wrath, and cried, "Shoot 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/38/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / [The Voices At the Window, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/) / 38

# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 38

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
But the nobleman was very wrath, and cried, "Shoot me down that son of a dog!"

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** nobleman · **What happens:** be, cry, shoot down · **To what, where:** nobleman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg29672:4:38
# text = But the nobleman was very wrath, and cried, "Shoot me down that son of a dog!"
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	wrath	wrath	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	det	_	_
16	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	vocative	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the nobleman |  |  |  |  | wrath *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the nobleman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **shoot down** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the nobleman *= nobleman* |  |  |  | that son of a dog *vocative* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/37/)
- next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/39/)
- ↑ back to [The Voices At the Window, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/)