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title: But the sister said to the serpent, "Dear friend, make him get ready… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the sister said to the serpent, "Dear friend, make him get ready boiling water for himself, and we will boil him, for it does not become thee to dirty thy hands."--"Very well," said the serpent; "he shall make the boiling water ready!" Who acts: sister, serpent, we, water. A sentence of «Cossack
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 13

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But the sister said to the serpent, "Dear friend, make him get ready boiling water for himself, and we will boil him, for it does not become thee to dirty thy hands."--"Very well," said the serpent; "he shall make the boiling water ready!"

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**Who acts:** sister, serpent, we, water · **What happens:** say, make, get, boil, not become, dirty · **To what, where:** serpent, ready boiling water, thee, hands, boiling water · **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 (sister, serpent, we, water), 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:pg29672:6:13
# text = But the sister said to the serpent, "Dear friend, make him get ready boiling water for himself, and we will boil him, for it does not become thee to dirty thy hands."--"Very well," said the serpent; "he shall make the boiling water ready!"
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	boil	boil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
33	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	32	obj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	dirty	dirty	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
36	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	46	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	43	punct	_	_
46	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
52	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	boiling	boiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
57	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	53	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the sister |  | the serpent and Dear friend |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to serpent=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | serpent |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | serpent *not said here* | ready boiling water |  |  |  | for serpent | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme for himself=Source |
| 4 | **boil** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **boil** *in a quote* | future | we | serpent |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **become** *in a quote* | present · do-support | water | thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **dirty** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | water *not said here* | thy hands |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the serpent |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **make** *in a quote* | shall | serpent | the boiling water |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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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