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title: Then she glided down from his charger and said, "Wait here, and I'll… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she glided down from his charger and said, "Wait here, and I'll soon be with thee again," and with that she wriggled under the gate. Who acts: thunderbolt. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of Unlucky Daniel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 49

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Then she glided down from his charger and said, "Wait here, and I'll soon be with thee again," and with that she wriggled under the gate.

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**Who acts:** thunderbolt · **What happens:** glide down, say, wait, be, wriggle · **To what, where:** charger, gate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (thunderbolt), 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:pg29672:10:49
# text = Then she glided down from his charger and said, "Wait here, and I'll soon be with thee again," and with that she wriggled under the gate.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	glided	glide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	charger	charger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
13	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
18	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	parataxis	_	_
22	again	again	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	conj	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	wriggled	wriggle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	under	under	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glide down** | past | thunderbolt |  |  | Daniel's charger | then | down *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | thunderbolt *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **wait** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | future | thunderbolt |  |  |  | again | with thee; soon *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **wriggle** | past | thunderbolt |  |  | the gate |  |  | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «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:** «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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