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title: Then Oh again tied him to the wood and burnt him and scattered the a… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Oh again tied him to the wood and burnt him and scattered the ashes to the four winds and sprinkled the remnant of the coal with living water, and instead of the loutish clown there stood there such a handsome and stalwart Cossack[3] that the like of him can neither be imagined nor described bu
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 50

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Then Oh again tied him to the wood and burnt him and scattered the ashes to the four winds and sprinkled the remnant of the coal with living water, and instead of the loutish clown there stood there such a handsome and stalwart Cossack\[3\] that the like of him can neither be imagined nor described but only told of in tales.

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**What happens:** tie, burnt, scatter, sprinkle, stand, imagine · **To what, where:** labourer, ashes, remnant, handsome Cossack · **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: 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:pg29672:2:50
# text = Then Oh again tied him to the wood and burnt him and scattered the ashes to the four winds and sprinkled the remnant of the coal with living water, and instead of the loutish clown there stood there such a handsome and stalwart Cossack[3] that the like of him can neither be imagined nor described but only told of in tales.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	remnant	remnant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
32	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	36	case	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	loutish	loutish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	clown	clown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
37	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	advmod	_	_
38	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
39	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	advmod	_	_
40	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	45	det:predet	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
42	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	stalwart	stalwart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	conj	_	_
45	Cossack	cossack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	45	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	47	punct	_	_
49	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
51	like	like	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	fixed	_	_
53	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nmod	_	_
54	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
55	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
56	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	aux:pass	_	_
57	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	advcl	_	_
58	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	59	cc	_	_
59	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	57	conj	_	_
60	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
61	only	only	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
62	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	57	conj	_	_
63	of	of	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	in	in	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie** | past |  | labourer |  |  | then; again | to the wood | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to wood=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **burnt** | past |  | labourer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **scatter** | past |  | the ashes |  |  |  | to the four winds | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ash=Theme |
| 4 | **sprinkle** | past |  | the remnant of the coal with living water |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent remnant=Theme |
| 5 | **stand** | past |  | such handsome Cossack |  | there; there |  | instead the loutish clown | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **imagine** | can · passive |  |  |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF» |
| 7 | **describe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | of tales | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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