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title: He saw the host standing round the house in three strong rows, but t… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He saw the host standing round the house in three strong rows, but through all three rows he leaped and made straight for the house. Who acts: man, host. 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 27

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He saw the host standing round the house in three strong rows, but through all three rows he leaped and made straight for the house.

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**Who acts:** man, host · **What happens:** see, stand, leap, make · **To what, where:** host, three strong rows, three rows

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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, host), 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:pg29672:17:27
# text = He saw the host standing round the house in three strong rows, but through all three rows he leaped and made straight for the house.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	round	round	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
17	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	leaped	leap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
23	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | man | the host |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer host=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund | the host *not said here* |  |  | three strong rows |  | round the house | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location |
| 3 | **leap** | past | man |  |  | all three rows |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through row=Trajectory |
| 4 | **make** | past | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the house; straight *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for house=Asset |

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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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