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title: Now all the doves there were pecking at the wheat, all but one that… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now all the doves there were pecking at the wheat, all but one that sat alone beneath the pear-tree, sticking out its breast and pruning its feathers. " Who acts: doves. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 83

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Now all the doves there were pecking at the wheat, all but one that sat alone beneath the pear-tree, sticking out its breast and pruning its feathers. "

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**Who acts:** doves · **What happens:** peck, sit, stick out, prune · **To what, where:** pear tree, breast, feathers

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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 (doves), 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:pg29672:2:83
# text = Now all the doves there were pecking at the wheat, all but one that sat alone beneath the pear-tree, sticking out its breast and pruning its feathers. "
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	pecking	peck	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nsubj	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	parataxis	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	pear	pear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	sticking	stick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	pruning	prune	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **peck** | past · progressive | all doves |  |  |  | now | at the wheat | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at wheat=Patient |
| 2 | **sit** | past |  |  |  | the pear tree |  | alone *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath tree=Location |
| 3 | **stick out** | gerund | all doves *not said here* | tree's breast |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent breast=Theme |
| 4 | **prune** | gerund | all doves *not said here* | breast's feathers |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient |

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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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