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title: And when his benefactress saw him, she said, "Why, if poor unlucky D… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when his benefactress saw him, she said, "Why, if poor unlucky Daniel hasn't fallen into a scrape again." Who acts: benefactress, poor unlucky 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 89

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And when his benefactress saw him, she said, "Why, if poor unlucky Daniel hasn't fallen into a scrape again."

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**Who acts:** benefactress, poor unlucky Daniel · **What happens:** see, say, not fall · **To what, where:** horse, scrape · **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 (benefactress, poor unlucky 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:pg29672:10:89
# text = And when his benefactress saw him, she said, "Why, if poor unlucky Daniel hasn't fallen into a scrape again."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	benefactress	benefactress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	scrape	scrape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | horse's benefactress | horse |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | benefactress |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **fall** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · perfect | poor unlucky Daniel |  |  |  | again | into a scrape *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into scrape=Result |

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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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