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title: Then he made two buckets and hung them up on the whitethorn-tree, an… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he made two buckets and hung them up on the whitethorn-tree, and said to his sister, "Look now, sister! if thou weepest for me, this bucket will fill with tears, but if thou weepest for the serpent that bucket will fill with blood!" Who acts: Tsar, thou, bucket, serpent. A sentence of «Cossack 
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 51

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Then he made two buckets and hung them up on the whitethorn-tree, and said to his sister, "Look now, sister! if thou weepest for me, this bucket will fill with tears, but if thou weepest for the serpent that bucket will fill with blood!"

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**Who acts:** Tsar, thou, bucket, serpent · **What happens:** make, hang up, say, look, weep, fill · **To what, where:** two buckets, buckets, whitethorn tree, sister · **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, thou, bucket, serpent), 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:pg29672:6:51
# text = Then he made two buckets and hung them up on the whitethorn-tree, and said to his sister, "Look now, sister! if thou weepest for me, this bucket will fill with tears, but if thou weepest for the serpent that bucket will fill with blood!"
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	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	buckets	bucket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	whitethorn	whitethorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
24	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nsubj	_	_
30	weepest	weep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
34	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	parataxis	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	44	nsubj	_	_
44	weepest	weep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj	_	_
49	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
50	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	acl:relcl	_	_
52	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Tsar | two buckets |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hang up** | past | Tsar *not said here* | buckets *= bucket* |  | the whitethorn tree |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on tree=Destination |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Tsar *not said here* |  | Tsar's sister |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | sister |  |  | now |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **weep** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | thou |  |  |  |  | for Tsar | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **fill** *in a quote* | future | this bucket |  |  |  |  | with tears | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with tear=Instrument |
| 7 | **weep** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | thou |  |  |  |  | for the serpent | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **fill** *in a quote* | future | the serpent |  |  |  |  | with blood | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with blood=Instrument |

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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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