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title: The Tsar took off his clothes and plunged into the water after it, a… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tsar took off his clothes and plunged into the water after it, and it enticed him farther and farther away from the shore. Who acts: Tsar, water. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of Unlucky Daniel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 117

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The Tsar took off his clothes and plunged into the water after it, and it enticed him farther and farther away from the shore.

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**Who acts:** Tsar, water · **What happens:** take off, plunge, entice · **To what, where:** clothes, water, Tsar

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of Unlucky Daniel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar, water), 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:pg29672:10:117
# text = The Tsar took off his clothes and plunged into the water after it, and it enticed him farther and farther away from the shore.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	plunged	plunge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	enticed	entice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	conj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take off** | past | the Tsar | Tsar's clothes |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme |
| 2 | **plunge** | participle | the Tsar *not said here* |  |  | the water after water |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **entice** | past | water | Tsar |  |  |  | far *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |

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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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