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title: They won't let her in there, but she must disguise herself as an old… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They won't let her in there, but she must disguise herself as an old woman, and sit down outside in the courtyard, and spread out a cloth and lay upon it her little silver apple, and all the people will come flocking around to see the old woman who is selling apples of silver." Who acts: WIVES, moth
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 114

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They won't let her in there, but she must disguise herself as an old woman, and sit down outside in the courtyard, and spread out a cloth and lay upon it her little silver apple, and all the people will come flocking around to see the old woman who is selling apples of silver."

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**Who acts:** WIVES, mother, people, old woman · **What happens:** not let, disguise, sit down, spread out, lay, come · **To what, where:** mother, courtyard, cloth, little silver apple, old woman, apples

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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 (WIVES, mother, people, old woman), 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:pg29672:20:114
# text = They won't let her in there, but she must disguise herself as an old woman, and sit down outside in the courtyard, and spread out a cloth and lay upon it her little silver apple, and all the people will come flocking around to see the old woman who is selling apples of silver."
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	disguise	disguise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
34	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
37	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
42	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	44	det:predet	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
45	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
47	flocking	flock	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	46	xcomp	_	_
48	around	around	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	advcl	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
54	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	56	nsubj	_	_
55	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	53	acl:relcl	_	_
57	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obj	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **let** | future | WIVES *= wife* | mother |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **disguise** | must | mother | mother |  |  |  | as a old woman | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Destination |
| 3 | **sit down** | infinitive | WIVES *= wife* *not said here* |  |  | the courtyard |  | outside *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in courtyard=Location |
| 4 | **spread out** | infinitive | WIVES *= wife* *not said here* | a cloth |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cloth=Theme |
| 5 | **lay** | infinitive | WIVES *= wife* *not said here* | mother's little silver apple |  | cloth |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent apple=Theme upon it=Destination |
| 6 | **come** | future | all people |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **flock around** | gerund | all people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **see** | to-infinitive | all people *not said here* | the old woman |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus |
| 9 | **sell** | present · progressive | the old woman | apples of silver |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=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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