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title: So I have come to thee, dear little master; lend us but a silver rou… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So I have come to thee, dear little master; lend us but a silver rouble and we will be ever thankful to thee, and I'll work myself old to pay it back."--"But who will stand surety for thee?" asked the rich man.--"I know not if any man will, I am so poor. Who acts: I, we. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 11

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So I have come to thee, dear little master; lend us but a silver rouble and we will be ever thankful to thee, and I'll work myself old to pay it back."--"But who will stand surety for thee?" asked the rich man.--"I know not if any man will, I am so poor.

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**Who acts:** I, we · **What happens:** come, lend, be, work, pay back, stand · **To what, where:** thee, us, myself, master, surety, rich man

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we), 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:pg29672:8:11
# text = So I have come to thee, dear little master; lend us but a silver rouble and we will be ever thankful to thee, and I'll work myself old to pay it back."--"But who will stand surety for thee?" asked the rich man.--"I know not if any man will, I am so poor.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	TO	_	6	case	_	_
6	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	lend	lend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	rouble	rouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
22	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	advmod	_	_
23	thankful	thankful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	TO	_	25	case	_	_
25	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
31	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	30	obj	_	_
32	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	back	back	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
43	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
45	surety	surety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
50	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
59	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	58	advmod	_	_
60	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	63	mark	_	_
61	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	62	det	_	_
62	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nsubj	_	_
63	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
65	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	68	nsubj	_	_
66	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	68	cop	_	_
67	so	so	ADV	RB	_	68	advmod	_	_
68	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present · perfect | I |  |  | thee |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to thou=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **lend** | infinitive |  |  | us |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | future | we |  |  |  | ever | to thee; thankful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **work** | future | I | myself |  |  |  | old *obl* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent myself=Material |
| 5 | **pay back** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | master |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset |
| 6 | **stand** | future |  | surety |  |  |  | for thee | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer surety=Stimulus for thou=Attribute |
| 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | past |  |  | the rich man |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient |
| 8 | **not** **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | poor *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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