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title: Then he called aloud to the serpent and said, "And now, dear brother… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he called aloud to the serpent and said, "And now, dear brother-in-law, come out, for I am ready for thee!" Who acts: Tsar, dear brother. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 41

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Then he called aloud to the serpent and said, "And now, dear brother-in-law, come out, for I am ready for thee!"

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**Who acts:** Tsar, dear brother · **What happens:** call, say, come out, be · **To what, where:** serpent · **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, dear brother), 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:pg29672:6:41
# text = Then he called aloud to the serpent and said, "And now, dear brother-in-law, come out, for I am ready for thee!"
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
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	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	parataxis	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: express* | past | Tsar |  | the serpent |  | then | aloud *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to serpent=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Tsar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come out** *in a quote* | infinitive | dear brother and law |  |  |  | now | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Tsar |  |  |  |  | for thee; ready *property* | tree rules |

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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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