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title: Shortly after they came to examine him, and asked him, "Whence art t… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Shortly after they came to examine him, and asked him, "Whence art thou?"--"From such and such a capital," said he. Who acts: sentries, such capital. 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 82

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Shortly after they came to examine him, and asked him, "Whence art thou?"--"From such and such a capital," said he.

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**Who acts:** sentries, such capital · **What happens:** come, examine, ask, say · **To what, where:** passport · **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 (sentries, such capital), 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:pg29672:19:82
# text = Shortly after they came to examine him, and asked him, "Whence art thou?"--"From such and such a capital," said he.
1	Shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	examine	examine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
16	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	From	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	26	det:predet	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
29	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | sentries *= sentry* |  |  |  |  | shortly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **examine** | to-infinitive | sentries *= sentry* *not said here* | passport |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | sentries *= sentry* *not said here* |  | passport |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | such such capital |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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