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title: He would do nothing, he would not even fetch water from the well, bu… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He would do nothing, he would not even fetch water from the well, but lay on the stove all day long and rolled among the warm cinders. Who acts: Heaven. 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 13

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He would do nothing, he would not even fetch water from the well, but lay on the stove all day long and rolled among the warm cinders.

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**Who acts:** Heaven · **What happens:** do, not fetch, lay, roll · **To what, where:** nothing, water, well, stove, warm cinders

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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 (Heaven), 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:pg29672:2:13
# text = He would do nothing, he would not even fetch water from the well, but lay on the stove all day long and rolled among the warm cinders.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
26	among	among	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	cinders	cinder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | would | Heaven | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **fetch** | would | Heaven | water |  | the well |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from well=Source |
| 3 | **lay** | infinitive | Heaven *not said here* |  |  | the stove | day | long *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on stove=Destination |
| 4 | **roll** | past | Heaven *not said here* |  |  | the warm cinders |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among cinder=Trajectory |

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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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