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title: (for without his dogs he must needs be courteous to the serpent) "pr… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: (for without his dogs he must needs be courteous to the serpent) "pray let me climb up that whitethorn-tree, and have a good look about me!" Who acts: Tsar, dogs. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 12

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(for without his dogs he must needs be courteous to the serpent) "pray let me climb up that whitethorn-tree, and have a good look about me!"

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**Who acts:** Tsar, dogs · **What happens:** need, be, pray, let, climb up, have · **To what, where:** dogs, Tsar, whitethorn tree, good look

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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, dogs), 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:pg29672:6:12
# text = (for without his dogs he must needs be courteous to the serpent) "pray let me climb up that whitethorn-tree, and have a good look about me!"
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	courteous	courteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	pray	pray	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
22	whitethorn	whitethorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	about	about	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | must | Tsar | Tsar's dogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot dog=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | infinitive | Tsar's dogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the serpent; courteous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pray** *in a quote* | infinitive | Tsar's dogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | Tsar's dogs *not said here* | Tsar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **climb up** *in a quote* | infinitive | Tsar *not said here* | that whitethorn tree |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme |
| 6 | **have** *in a quote* | infinitive | Tsar's dogs *not said here* | a good look |  |  |  | about Tsar | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient |

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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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