--- title: But the fox went on asking and asking till at last the cock let him… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But the fox went on asking and asking till at last the cock let him in. Who acts: fox, last cock. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/20/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / [The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/20/) / 13 # Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 13 But the fox went on asking and asking till at last the cock let him in. **Who acts:** fox, last cock · **What happens:** go, ask, let in · **To what, where:** Pussy · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (fox, last cock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29672:20:13 # text = But the fox went on asking and asking till at last the cock let him in. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 on on SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 9 till till ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the fox | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | the fox *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | the fox *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **let in** | infinitive | the last cock | Pussy | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/20/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/20/14/) - ↑ back to [The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/20/)