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title: The old man took the honey from the bear, but no sooner did he lie d… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The old man took the honey from the bear, but no sooner did he lie down than again there was another "Durrrrr!" at the door. Who acts: old man, bear. 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 54

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The old man took the honey from the bear, but no sooner did he lie down than again there was another "Durrrrr!" at the door.

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**Who acts:** old man, bear · **What happens:** take, lie down, be · **To what, where:** honey, bear

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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 (old man, bear), 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:pg29672:14:54
# text = The old man took the honey from the bear, but no sooner did he lie down than again there was another "Durrrrr!" at the door.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	flat:foreign	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Durrrrr	durrrrr	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the old man | the honey |  | the bear |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent honey=Theme from bear=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **lie down** | past · do-support | bear |  |  |  | again | soon *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **be** | past | bear *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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