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title: But the stag swam across to the opposite bank, and the Tsar was exte… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the stag swam across to the opposite bank, and the Tsar was extending his hand to seize him by the horns--when there was no longer any stag to be seen. Who acts: stag, Tsar, extending. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 35

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But the stag swam across to the opposite bank, and the Tsar was extending his hand to seize him by the horns--when there was no longer any stag to be seen.

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**Who acts:** stag, Tsar, extending · **What happens:** swim, extend, seize, be, see · **To what, where:** opposite bank, hand, stag

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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 (stag, Tsar, extending), 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:pg29672:19:35
# text = But the stag swam across to the opposite bank, and the Tsar was extending his hand to seize him by the horns--when there was no longer any stag to be seen.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	across	across	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	extending	extend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	csubj	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
26	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	27	expl	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
28	no	no	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
30	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
31	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | past | the stag |  |  | the opposite bank |  | across *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bank=Destination |
| 2 | **extend** | past · progressive | the Tsar | stag's hand |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 3 | **seize** | to-infinitive | the Tsar *not said here* | stag |  |  |  | by the horns | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | extending | any stag |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive · passive | the stag *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |

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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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