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title: Then Oh took the ashes and scattered them to the four winds, but a s… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Oh took the ashes and scattered them to the four winds, but a single piece of burnt coal fell from out of the ashes, and this coal he sprinkled with living water, whereupon the labourer immediately stood there alive again and somewhat handsomer and stronger than before. Who acts: single piece, 
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 48

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Then Oh took the ashes and scattered them to the four winds, but a single piece of burnt coal fell from out of the ashes, and this coal he sprinkled with living water, whereupon the labourer immediately stood there alive again and somewhat handsomer and stronger than before.

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**Who acts:** single piece, coal, labourer · **What happens:** take, scatter, fall, sprinkle, stand · **To what, where:** ashes

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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 (single piece, coal, labourer), 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:pg29672:2:48
# text = Then Oh took the ashes and scattered them to the four winds, but a single piece of burnt coal fell from out of the ashes, and this coal he sprinkled with living water, whereupon the labourer immediately stood there alive again and somewhat handsomer and stronger than before.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	scattered	scatter	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	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	burnt	burnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	41	advmod	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	labourer	labourer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
40	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
42	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	_
43	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	xcomp	_	_
44	again	again	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	handsomer	handsome	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	41	conj	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	47	conj	_	_
50	than	than	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	before	before	ADV	RB	_	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past |  | the ashes |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ash=Theme |
| 2 | **scatter** | past |  | ashes *= ash* |  |  |  | to the four winds | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | past | a single piece of burnt coal |  |  | the ashes |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from ash=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **sprinkle** | past | this coal |  |  |  |  | with living water | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with water=Theme |
| 5 | **stand** | past | the labourer |  |  | there | again | alive, immediately, whereupon *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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