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title: I smell an evil smell of Cossack bones!"--But his mother answered, "… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I smell an evil smell of Cossack bones!"--But his mother answered, "A young woman came hither who begged for a night's lodging." Who acts: I, mother, young woman, Cossack bones. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 111

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I smell an evil smell of Cossack bones!"--But his mother answered, "A young woman came hither who begged for a night's lodging."

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**Who acts:** I, mother, young woman, Cossack bones · **What happens:** smell, answer, come, beg · **To what, where:** evil smell · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, mother, young woman, Cossack bones), 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:pg29672:20:111
# text = I smell an evil smell of Cossack bones!"--But his mother answered, "A young woman came hither who begged for a night's lodging."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	smell	smell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Cossack	cossack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
22	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	lodging	lodging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** | present | I | a evil smell of Cossack bones |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | husband's mother |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | a young woman |  |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | past |  |  |  |  |  | for a night's lodging | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for lodging=Topic |
| 5 | **smell** |  | Cossack bones |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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