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title: And, lo! from behind the dark wood, from the back of the huge pines,… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And, lo! from behind the dark wood, from the back of the huge pines, a grey wolf came rushing out upon the ox and said, "Who are you? Who acts: dark wood, you. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Straw Ox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 25

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And, lo! from behind the dark wood, from the back of the huge pines, a grey wolf came rushing out upon the ox and said, "Who are you?

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**Who acts:** dark wood, you · **What happens:** come, rush out, say, be · **To what, where:** ox · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Straw Ox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dark wood, you), 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:pg29672:14:25
# text = And, lo! from behind the dark wood, from the back of the huge pines, a grey wolf came rushing out upon the ox and said, "Who are you?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	pines	pine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	xcomp	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	parataxis	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the dark wood and the back of the huge pines and a grey wolf |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rush out** | gerund | the dark wood and the back of the huge pines and a grey wolf *not said here* |  |  | the ox |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon ox=Trajectory |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the dark wood and the back of the huge pines and a grey wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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