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title: He went on and on till there met him an old man all as white as milk… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He went on and on till there met him an old man all as white as milk, and the raiment of this old man was glistening white. " Who acts: son, raiment. 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 73

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He went on and on till there met him an old man all as white as milk, and the raiment of this old man was glistening white. "

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**Who acts:** son, raiment · **What happens:** go, meet, glisten · **To what, where:** son

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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 (son, raiment), 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:pg29672:2:73
# text = He went on and on till there met him an old man all as white as milk, and the raiment of this old man was glistening white. "
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	_
6	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	all	all	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	raiment	raiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	glistening	glisten	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
28	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | son |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | past | son *not said here* | son |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **glisten** | past · progressive | the raiment of this old man |  |  |  |  | white *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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