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title: They went on and on, and there, on the borders of a forest, some hou… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They went on and on, and there, on the borders of a forest, some hounds were chasing a fox. Who acts: noblemen, hounds. 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 96

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They went on and on, and there, on the borders of a forest, some hounds were chasing a fox.

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**Who acts:** noblemen, hounds · **What happens:** go, chase · **To what, where:** borders, fox

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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 (noblemen, hounds), 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:pg29672:2:96
# text = They went on and on, and there, on the borders of a forest, some hounds were chasing a fox.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|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	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	hounds	hound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	chasing	chase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | noblemen *= nobleman* |  |  | the borders of a forest |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on border=Location |
| 2 | **chase** | past · progressive | some hounds | a fox |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=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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