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title: Go now to thy master, and bid him buy twenty hides, and twenty poods… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Go now to thy master, and bid him buy twenty hides, and twenty poods[13] of pitch, and twenty poods of flax, and twenty poods of hair."--So Tremsin went to his master and told him, and his master bought it all. Who acts: you, Tremsin, master. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The V
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 195

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Go now to thy master, and bid him buy twenty hides, and twenty poods\[13\] of pitch, and twenty poods of flax, and twenty poods of hair."--So Tremsin went to his master and told him, and his master bought it all.

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**Who acts:** you, Tremsin, master · **What happens:** go, bid, buy, tell · **To what, where:** trifle, twenty hides, master, hair · **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, Tremsin, master), 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:pg29672:8:195
# text = Go now to thy master, and bid him buy twenty hides, and twenty poods[13] of pitch, and twenty poods of flax, and twenty poods of hair."--So Tremsin went to his master and told him, and his master bought it all.
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	bid	bid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	hides	hide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	poods	pood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	poods	pood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	poods	pood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	parataxis	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	So	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
38	Tremsin	Tremsin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
45	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
50	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	51	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	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* |  |  |  | now | to thy master | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bid** | past |  | trifle |  |  |  | twenty poods *obl*; twenty poods of flax *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **buy** | infinitive |  | twenty hides |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Theme |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | past | Tremsin |  |  | trifle's master |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to master=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Tremsin *not said here* |  | trifle |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 6 | **buy** *in a quote* | past | trifle's master | hair |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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