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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 32

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They went through this forest, but in a short time they grew very tired, and when they came to a path leading to a clearing full of large tree-stumps, the father said, "I am so tired out that I will rest here a little," and with that he sat down on a tree-stump and cried, "Oh, how tired I am!"

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**Who acts:** father, path, last · **What happens:** go, grow, come, lead, clear, say · **To what, where:** forest, path, little, tree stump · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (father, path, last), 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:pg29672:2:32
# text = They went through this forest, but in a short time they grew very tired, and when they came to a path leading to a clearing full of large tree-stumps, the father said, "I am so tired out that I will rest here a little," and with that he sat down on a tree-stump and cried, "Oh, how tired I am!"
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	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	clearing	clear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
28	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
31	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	stumps	stump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
41	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	so	so	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	ccomp	_	_
44	out	out	ADP	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
45	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
46	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	advcl	_	_
49	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	48	advmod	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	43	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
55	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
56	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
57	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
59	down	down	ADP	RP	_	58	compound:prt	_	_
60	on	on	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
62	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	62	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	stump	stump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	_
65	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
66	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	72	punct	_	_
68	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	72	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	72	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	72	punct	_	_
71	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	72	advmod	_	_
72	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	parataxis	_	_
73	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	72	nsubj	_	_
74	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	72	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	"	"	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 | father |  |  | this forest |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through forest=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **grow** | past | father |  |  |  | time | tired *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | father |  |  | a path |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to path=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **lead** | gerund | a path *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 5 | **clear** | gerund | a path *not said here* |  |  |  |  | full *property* | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the father |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the father *= father* |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **rest** *in a quote* | future | the father *= father* | a little |  | here |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **sit down** | past | last |  |  | a tree stump |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stump=Location |
| 10 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | last *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 11 | **is** *in a quote* | present | last |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | 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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