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title: And the horse said to him, "Did I not tell thee that grievous woe wo… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the horse said to him, "Did I not tell thee that grievous woe would come upon thee if thou didst pick up that feather?" Who acts: horse, grievous woe, thou. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 187

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And the horse said to him, "Did I not tell thee that grievous woe would come upon thee if thou didst pick up that feather?"

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**Who acts:** horse, grievous woe, thou · **What happens:** say, not tell, come, do, pick up · **To what, where:** nobleman, thee, feather · **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 (horse, grievous woe, 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:pg29672:8:187
# text = And the horse said to him, "Did I not tell thee that grievous woe would come upon thee if thou didst pick up that feather?"
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
13	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	iobj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	grievous	grievous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	obl	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
23	didst	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
24	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	det	_	_
27	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the horse |  | nobleman |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past · do-support | the horse *= horse* |  | thee |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | would | grievous woe |  |  | thee |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon thou=Location |
| 4 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pick up** *in a quote* | infinitive | thou *not said here* | that feather |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Topic |

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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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