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title: At last he looked about him and saw, far, far away, smoke rising abo… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At last he looked about him and saw, far, far away, smoke rising above the forest, and something like a dark cloud standing in the clear sky. " Who acts: stag, smoke, dark cloud. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 42

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At last he looked about him and saw, far, far away, smoke rising above the forest, and something like a dark cloud standing in the clear sky. "

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**Who acts:** stag, smoke, dark cloud · **What happens:** look, see, rise, stand · **To what, where:** something, forest, clear sky

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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, smoke, dark cloud), 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:pg29672:19:42
# text = At last he looked about him and saw, far, far away, smoke rising above the forest, and something like a dark cloud standing in the clear sky. "
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
16	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	above	above	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obl	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | stag |  |  |  |  | about angel; at last | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at last=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | stag *not said here* | something |  |  |  | away, far *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **rise** | gerund | smoke *not said here* |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above forest=Location |
| 4 | **stand** | gerund | a dark cloud *not said here* |  |  | the clear sky |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sky=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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