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title: And while he was looking at it, three wild doves came flying along a… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And while he was looking at it, three wild doves came flying along and lit down upon this lake. Who acts: brother, three wild doves. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 166

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And while he was looking at it, three wild doves came flying along and lit down upon this lake.

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**Who acts:** brother, three wild doves · **What happens:** look, come, fly, lit down

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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 (brother, three wild doves), 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:pg29672:19:166
# text = And while he was looking at it, three wild doves came flying along and lit down upon this lake.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
14	along	along	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past · progressive | brother |  |  |  |  | at wood | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | three wild doves |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fly** | gerund | three wild doves *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **lit down** | participle | three wild doves *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon this lake | 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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