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description: So he took the cripple and carried him home, and Katoma sat on his back, kept a look out all round, and cried out from time to time: "Right! Who acts: man, Katoma. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, with its dependency tree
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 13

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So he took the cripple and carried him home, and Katoma sat on his back, kept a look out all round, and cried out from time to time: "Right!

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**Who acts:** man, Katoma · **What happens:** take, carry, sit, keep out, cry out · **To what, where:** cripple, man, back, look

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Katoma), 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:pg22373:44:13
# text = So he took the cripple and carried him home, and Katoma sat on his back, kept a look out all round, and cried out from time to time: "Right!
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cripple	cripple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	home	home	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	Katoma	Katoma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
22	all	all	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	round	round	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | man | the cripple |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cripple=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | past | man *not said here* | man |  |  |  | home *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | past | Katoma |  |  | man's back |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location |
| 4 | **keep out** | past | man *not said here* | a look |  |  |  | round *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Theme |
| 5 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | man *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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