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title: And he told the General all that had happened.--"Oh, nonsense!" said… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And he told the General all that had happened.--"Oh, nonsense!" said the General, "don't be afraid. Who acts: man, that, General. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 22

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And he told the General all that had happened.--"Oh, nonsense!" said the General, "don't be afraid.

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**Who acts:** man, that, General · **What happens:** tell, happen, say, not be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, that, General), 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:pg29672:17:22
# text = And he told the General all that had happened.--"Oh, nonsense!" said the General, "don't be afraid.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	General	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
26	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | man |  |  |  |  | general *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **happen** | past · perfect | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the General |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | the General *not said here* |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | 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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