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title: For indeed he had been growing thin and haggard for a long time, and… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For indeed he had been growing thin and haggard for a long time, and his beard was all long and tangled. Who acts: man, beard. 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 91

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For indeed he had been growing thin and haggard for a long time, and his beard was all long and tangled.

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**Who acts:** man, beard · **What happens:** grow, be · **To what, where:** thin haggard

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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 (man, beard), 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:pg29672:19:91
# text = For indeed he had been growing thin and haggard for a long time, and his beard was all long and tangled.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	6	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux	_	_
6	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	haggard	haggard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	tangled	tangled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past · perfect · progressive | man | thin haggard |  |  | time |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent haggard=Product for indeed=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is** | past | man's beard |  |  |  |  | all, long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | man's beard *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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