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title: So _that_ is what thou art!" said he to the lackey, and immediately… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So _that_ is what thou art!" said he to the lackey, and immediately he bade them bind him and tie him to the tail of a horse so savage that no man could ride it, and then turn it loose into the endless steppe. Who acts: _, Tsar, man. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At 
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 104

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So \_that\_ is what thou art!" said he to the lackey, and immediately he bade them bind him and tie him to the tail of a horse so savage that no man could ride it, and then turn it loose into the endless steppe.

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**Who acts:** \_, Tsar, man · **What happens:** be, say, bade, bind, tie, ride · **To what, where:** lackey, \_, Tsar, savage, endless steppe · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (\_, Tsar, man), 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:pg29672:6:104
# text = So _that_ is what thou art!" said he to the lackey, and immediately he bade them bind him and tie him to the tail of a horse so savage that no man could ride it, and then turn it loose into the endless steppe.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
2	_	_	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	appos	_	_
7	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
8	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lackey	lackey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	bind	bind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	tie	tie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	savage	savage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	37	det	_	_
37	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	44	advmod	_	_
44	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	loose	loose	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
47	into	into	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	endless	endless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	steppe	steppe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | \_ |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | \_ |  | the lackey |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to lackey=Recipient |
| 3 | **bade** *in a quote* | past | Tsar | \_ |  |  |  | immediately *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bind** *in a quote* | infinitive | Tsar *not said here* | Tsar |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 5 | **tie** *in a quote* | infinitive | Tsar *not said here* | Tsar |  |  |  | to the tail of a horse; so savage | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to tail=Co-Patient |
| 6 | **ride** *in a quote* | could | no man | savage |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location |
| 7 | **turn** *in a quote* | infinitive | \_ *not said here* | savage |  | the endless steppe | then | loose *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into steppe=Trajectory |

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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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