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title: What is this wonder?" thought he, "that the haughty Tsar should have… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: What is this wonder?" thought he, "that the haughty Tsar should have become so just and gentle."--But all men marvelled at the change that had come over the Tsar. Who acts: priest, men, change. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel, with its dependency tree and t
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 104

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What is this wonder?" thought he, "that the haughty Tsar should have become so just and gentle."--But all men marvelled at the change that had come over the Tsar.

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**Who acts:** priest, men, change · **What happens:** be, think, become, marvell, come · **To what, where:** wonder, change, Tsar · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (priest, men, change), 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:pg29672:19:104
# text = What is this wonder?" thought he, "that the haughty Tsar should have become so just and gentle."--But all men marvelled at the change that had come over the Tsar.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	haughty	haughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
17	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	marvelled	marvell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	over	over	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *speech: ask* | present |  | this wonder |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | should · perfect | priest |  |  |  |  | gentle *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **marvell** *in a quote* | past | all men |  |  | the change |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | past · perfect | the change |  |  | the Tsar |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over tsar=Initial\_Location |

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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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