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title: Close on his heels came the fox, driving before him geese and hens a… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Close on his heels came the fox, driving before him geese and hens and all manner of fowls; and last of all came the hare, bringing cabbage and kale and all manner of good food. Who acts: you, heels, last. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Straw Ox, with its dependency tree and
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 56

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Close on his heels came the fox, driving before him geese and hens and all manner of fowls; and last of all came the hare, bringing cabbage and kale and all manner of good food.

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**Who acts:** you, heels, last · **What happens:** close, come, drive, bring · **To what, where:** geese, cabbage

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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 (you, heels, last), 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:pg29672:14:56
# text = Close on his heels came the fox, driving before him geese and hens and all manner of fowls; and last of all came the hare, bringing cabbage and kale and all manner of good food.
1	Close	close	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	hens	hen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	fowls	fowl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nmod	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
30	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	kale	kale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | past | bear's heels |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **drive** | gerund | bear's heels *not said here* | geese and hens and all manner of fowls |  |  | before bear |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent goose=Theme before he=Destination |
| 4 | **come** | past | last of all |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **bring** | gerund | last of all *not said here* | cabbage and kale and all manner of good food |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cabbage=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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