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title: Then he nibbled his little piece of wheaten bread and sipped his wat… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he nibbled his little piece of wheaten bread and sipped his water, and his hunger was immediately satisfied. " Who acts: horse, hunger. 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 55

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Then he nibbled his little piece of wheaten bread and sipped his water, and his hunger was immediately satisfied. "

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**Who acts:** horse, hunger · **What happens:** nibble, sip, be, hunger · **To what, where:** little piece, water

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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 (horse, hunger), 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:pg29672:10:55
# text = Then he nibbled his little piece of wheaten bread and sipped his water, and his hunger was immediately satisfied. "
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	nibbled	nibble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	wheaten	wheaten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sipped	sip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nibble** | past | horse | horse's little piece of wheaten bread |  |  | then |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient |
| 2 | **sip** | past | horse *not said here* | horse's water |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | horse's hunger |  |  |  |  | immediately, satisfied *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hunger** |  | horse |  |  |  |  |  | nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=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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