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title: And whatever she may say to thee, and however she may implore thee,… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And whatever she may say to thee, and however she may implore thee, let her not get into it again until she says to thee, '_My consort! Who acts: better. 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 94

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And whatever she may say to thee, and however she may implore thee, let her not get into it again until she says to thee, '\_My consort!

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**Who acts:** better · **What happens:** say, implore, let, not get · **To what, where:** whatever, thee, better, coffin · **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 (better), 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:pg29672:8:94
# text = And whatever she may say to thee, and however she may implore thee, let her not get into it again until she says to thee, '_My consort!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	obj	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	TO	_	7	case	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	however	however	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	implore	implore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
23	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	TO	_	27	case	_	_
27	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	consort	consort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | may | better *= good* | whatever | thee |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent whatever=Topic to thou=Recipient |
| 2 | **implore** | may | better *= good* | thee |  |  |  | My consort *obl*; however *property* | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | better *= good* *not said here* | better *= good* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **get** | infinitive | better *= good* *not said here* |  |  | coffin | again |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=Destination |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | better *= good* |  | thee |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to thou=Recipient |

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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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