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title: Thou wilt perish, and we shall perish also!"--Then said the bullock,… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou wilt perish, and we shall perish also!"--Then said the bullock, "Little Tsar! look into my left ear and thou wilt see a horse-comb. Who acts: Thou, we. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 25

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Thou wilt perish, and we shall perish also!"--Then said the bullock, "Little Tsar! look into my left ear and thou wilt see a horse-comb.

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**Who acts:** Thou, we · **What happens:** perish, say, look, see · **To what, where:** bullock, horse comb · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou, we), 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:pg29672:5:25
# text = Thou wilt perish, and we shall perish also!"--Then said the bullock, "Little Tsar! look into my left ear and thou wilt see a horse-comb.
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
2	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bullock	bullock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
22	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nsubj	_	_
29	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perish** | future | Thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **perish** | shall | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  | the bullock |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | into my left ear | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into ear=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | future | thou | a horse comb |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer comb=Stimulus |

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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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