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title: Go to thy master and say, 'Cause white tents to be raised by the sea… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Go to thy master and say, 'Cause white tents to be raised by the sea-shore, and buy wares of sundry kinds, and wine and spirits in bottles and flasks,' and the thrice-lovely Nastasia will come and purchase thy wares, and then thou mayst take her." Who acts: you, sea shore, lovely Nastasia, thou. A s
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 169

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Go to thy master and say, 'Cause white tents to be raised by the sea-shore, and buy wares of sundry kinds, and wine and spirits in bottles and flasks,' and the thrice-lovely Nastasia will come and purchase thy wares, and then thou mayst take her."

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**Who acts:** you, sea shore, lovely Nastasia, thou · **What happens:** go, say, raise, buy, come, purchase · **To what, where:** master, wares, bottles, NASTASIA · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, sea shore, lovely Nastasia, thou), 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:pg29672:8:169
# text = Go to thy master and say, 'Cause white tents to be raised by the sea-shore, and buy wares of sundry kinds, and wine and spirits in bottles and flasks,' and the thrice-lovely Nastasia will come and purchase thy wares, and then thou mayst take her."
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tents	tent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	ccomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	buy	buy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
23	wares	ware	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	sundry	sundry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	flasks	flask	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
40	thrice	thrice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	Nastasia	Nastasia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
44	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	purchase	purchase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	conj	_	_
48	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	wares	ware	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
52	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	55	advmod	_	_
53	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	55	nsubj	_	_
54	mayst	may	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	conj	_	_
56	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | thy master |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to master=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **raise** | to-infinitive · passive | the sea shore |  |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **buy** | infinitive | you *not said here* | wares of sundry kinds |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ware=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | future | the lovely Nastasia |  |  | bottles and flasks |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bottle=Location |
| 6 | **purchase** | infinitive | the lovely Nastasia *not said here* | thy wares |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ware=Theme |
| 7 | **take** | may | thou |  | NASTASIA |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |

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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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