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title: Then the old people awoke him, and said, "Be off! be off! for the Ir… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the old people awoke him, and said, "Be off! be off! for the Iron Wolf is coming." Who acts: old people, Iron Wolf. 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 34

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Then the old people awoke him, and said, "Be off! be off! for the Iron Wolf is coming."

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**Who acts:** old people, Iron Wolf · **What happens:** awake off, say, be off, come · **To what, where:** man · **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 (old people, Iron Wolf), 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:pg29672:17:34
# text = Then the old people awoke him, and said, "Be off! be off! for the Iron Wolf is coming."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake off** | past | the old people | man |  |  | then |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the old people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **be off** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the Iron Wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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