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title: But just as the pike was almost up with it, the perch gave a sudden… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But just as the pike was almost up with it, the perch gave a sudden twist and stuck out its spiky fins and turned its tail toward the pike, so that the pike could not lay hold of it. Who acts: pike. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, with its dependency t
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 142

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But just as the pike was almost up with it, the perch gave a sudden twist and stuck out its spiky fins and turned its tail toward the pike, so that the pike could not lay hold of it.

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**Who acts:** pike · **What happens:** give, stick out, turn, not lay, hold · **To what, where:** sudden twist, tail, hold, perch

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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 (pike), 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:pg29672:2:142
# text = But just as the pike was almost up with it, the perch gave a sudden twist and stuck out its spiky fins and turned its tail toward the pike, so that the pike could not lay hold of it.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	nmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	perch	perch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	twist	twist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	spiky	spiky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	fins	fin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	38	mark	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
39	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the pike | a sudden twist and perch's stuck spiky fins |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twist=Theme |
| 2 | **stick out** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **turn** | past | the pike *not said here* | perch's tail |  |  |  | toward the pike | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tail=Theme toward pike=Trajectory |
| 4 | **not** **lay** | could | the pike | hold of perch |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result |
| 5 | **hold** |  |  | perch |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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