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title: We have a dog called Chutko,[18] who can hear a wolf coming a mile o… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: We have a dog called Chutko,[18] who can hear a wolf coming a mile off, and he'll be sure to let us know." Who acts: We, 18, wolf, man. 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 32

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We have a dog called Chutko,\[18\] who can hear a wolf coming a mile off, and he'll be sure to let us know."

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**Who acts:** We, 18, wolf, man, us · **What happens:** have, call, hear, come off, be, let · **To what, where:** dog, wolf, mile, us · **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 (We, 18, wolf, man), 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:pg29672:17:32
# text = We have a dog called Chutko,[18] who can hear a wolf coming a mile off, and he'll be sure to let us know."
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	Chutko	Chutko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
25	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | We | a dog |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | a dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | can | 18 | a wolf |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come off** | gerund | a wolf *not said here* | a mile |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | future | man |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **let** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **know** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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