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title: So he stretched forth his weapon, and drew forth a goodly serpent, s… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he stretched forth his weapon, and drew forth a goodly serpent, such as is only known of in old folk-songs. Who acts: Daniel. 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 47

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So he stretched forth his weapon, and drew forth a goodly serpent, such as is only known of in old folk-songs.

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**Who acts:** Daniel · **What happens:** stretch, draw, know · **To what, where:** weapon, goodly serpent

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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 (Daniel), 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:pg29672:10:47
# text = So he stretched forth his weapon, and drew forth a goodly serpent, such as is only known of in old folk-songs.
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	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	weapon	weapon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	goodly	goodly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	19	mark	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	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 | **stretch** | past | Daniel | Daniel's weapon |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent weapon=Patient |
| 2 | **draw** | past | Daniel *not said here* | a goodly serpent |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | present · passive |  | a goodly serpent *not said here* |  |  |  | of old folk songs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: of song=Stimulus |

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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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