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title: His mistress saw it, and made after them with a harrow, crying at th… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: His mistress saw it, and made after them with a harrow, crying at the same time, "Husband, husband! the wolf has got the child! Who acts: mistress, wolf. 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 9

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His mistress saw it, and made after them with a harrow, crying at the same time, "Husband, husband! the wolf has got the child!

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**Who acts:** mistress, wolf · **What happens:** see, make, cry, get · **To what, where:** child, Husband · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (mistress, wolf), 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:pg29672:12:9
# text = His mistress saw it, and made after them with a harrow, crying at the same time, "Husband, husband! the wolf has got the child!
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	harrow	harrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | dog's mistress | child |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle | dog's mistress *not said here* |  |  |  | after teeth *= tooth* | with a harrow | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | dog's mistress *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the wolf | Husband and husband |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=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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