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title: Then Oh seized him, and bade them bring wood and tie his labourer fa… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Oh seized him, and bade them bring wood and tie his labourer fast to the wood, and set the wood on fire till the labourer was burnt to ashes. 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 47

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Then Oh seized him, and bade them bring wood and tie his labourer fast to the wood, and set the wood on fire till the labourer was burnt to ashes.

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**What happens:** seize, bade, bring, tie, set, burnt · **To what, where:** last, nixies, wood, labourer, fire

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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: 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:pg29672:2:47
# text = Then Oh seized him, and bade them bring wood and tie his labourer fast to the wood, and set the wood on fire till the labourer was burnt to ashes.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	tie	tie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	labourer	labourer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	labourer	labourer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past |  | last |  |  | then |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **bade** | past |  | nixies *= nixy* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | infinitive |  | wood |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wood=Theme |
| 4 | **tie** | infinitive |  | last's labourer |  |  |  | to the wood; fast *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent labourer=Patient to wood=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **set** | infinitive |  | the wood |  | fire |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme on fire=Destination |
| 6 | **burnt** | past · passive |  | the labourer |  |  |  | to ashes | 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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