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title: The Tsar thought it was some evil-doer, but it was the self-same ang… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tsar thought it was some evil-doer, but it was the self-same angel that had now put on the Tsar's clothes and gone away to collect the huntsmen and take them home. Who acts: Tsar, horse. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 40

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The Tsar thought it was some evil-doer, but it was the self-same angel that had now put on the Tsar's clothes and gone away to collect the huntsmen and take them home.

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**Who acts:** Tsar, horse · **What happens:** think, be, put, go away, collect, take · **To what, where:** evil doer, same angel, clothes, huntsmen · **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 (Tsar, horse), 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:pg29672:19:40
# text = The Tsar thought it was some evil-doer, but it was the self-same angel that had now put on the Tsar's clothes and gone away to collect the huntsmen and take them home.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
7	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	doer	doer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	22	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	collect	collect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	home	home	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the Tsar |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | horse | some evil doer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | horse | the same angel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **put** | past · perfect · passive |  | the same angel |  | the Tsar's clothes | now |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on clothes=Destination |
| 5 | **go away** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **collect** | to-infinitive |  | the huntsmen |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent huntsman=Theme |
| 7 | **take** | infinitive |  | huntsmen *= huntsman* |  |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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