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title: The nobleman praised Tremsin exceedingly, but the thrice-lovely Nast… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The nobleman praised Tremsin exceedingly, but the thrice-lovely Nastasia said, "Look now! since thou hast found the feather of the Bird Zhar, and the Bird Zhar herself, since also thou hast found me, thou must now fetch me also my little coral necklace from the sea!" Who acts: nobleman, lovely Nasta
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 185

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The nobleman praised Tremsin exceedingly, but the thrice-lovely Nastasia said, "Look now! since thou hast found the feather of the Bird Zhar, and the Bird Zhar herself, since also thou hast found me, thou must now fetch me also my little coral necklace from the sea!"

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**Who acts:** nobleman, lovely Nastasia, thou · **What happens:** praise, say, look, find, fetch · **To what, where:** Tremsin, feather, lovely 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 (nobleman, 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:pg29672:8:185
# text = The nobleman praised Tremsin exceedingly, but the thrice-lovely Nastasia said, "Look now! since thou hast found the feather of the Bird Zhar, and the Bird Zhar herself, since also thou hast found me, thou must now fetch me also my little coral necklace from the sea!"
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	praised	praise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Tremsin	Tremsin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	thrice	thrice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Nastasia	Nastasia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
19	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nsubj	_	_
21	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
37	also	also	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
38	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	40	nsubj	_	_
39	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
41	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	46	nsubj	_	_
44	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	46	advmod	_	_
46	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
47	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	also	also	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
49	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
50	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
51	coral	coral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	necklace	necklace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
53	from	from	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	46	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **praise** | past | the nobleman | Tremsin |  |  |  | NASTASIA *obl*; exceedingly *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent tremsin=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the lovely Nastasia |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **find** *in a quote* | present · perfect | thou | the feather of the Bird Zhar |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Topic |
| 5 | **find** *in a quote* | present · perfect | thou | the lovely Nastasia *= nastasia* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic |
| 6 | **fetch** *in a quote* | must | thou | the lovely Nastasia *= nastasia* |  |  | now | my little coral necklace from the sea *obl* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |

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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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