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title: Thy mistress, I see, has put her child down beneath that wagon. — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thy mistress, I see, has put her child down beneath that wagon. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Old Dog, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Old Dog, sentence 5

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Thy mistress, I see, has put her child down beneath that wagon.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** see, put down · **To what, where:** mistress

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Old Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg29672:12:5
# text = Thy mistress, I see, has put her child down beneath that wagon.
1	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
12	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	wagon	wagon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | I | Thy mistress *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mistress=Stimulus |
| 2 | **put down** | present · perfect · passive |  | Thy mistress |  |  |  | beneath that wagon; down *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset child=Goal |

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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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