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title: They went into the plain, and there were some young noblemen casting… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They went into the plain, and there were some young noblemen casting their falcon at a quail. Who acts: falcons, young noblemen. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 109

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They went into the plain, and there were some young noblemen casting their falcon at a quail.

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**Who acts:** falcons, young noblemen · **What happens:** go, be, cast · **To what, where:** plain, falcon

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (falcons, young noblemen), 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:pg29672:2:109
# text = They went into the plain, and there were some young noblemen casting their falcon at a quail.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	noblemen	nobleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
13	casting	cast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	quail	quail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | falcons *= falcon* |  |  | the plain |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into plain=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **be** | past | some young noblemen |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cast** | gerund | some young noblemen *not said here* | falcons's falcon |  |  |  | at a quail | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent falcon=Theme at quail=Destination |

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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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