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title: Then he came to his right mind, and cried aloud that they should bri… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he came to his right mind, and cried aloud that they should bring in lights, and he saw that his faithful wife was quite an old woman. Who acts: husband, WIVES, faithful wife. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 136

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Then he came to his right mind, and cried aloud that they should bring in lights, and he saw that his faithful wife was quite an old woman.

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**Who acts:** husband, WIVES, faithful wife · **What happens:** come, cry, bring in, see, be, mind · **To what, where:** right mind, lights, old woman

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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 (husband, WIVES, faithful wife), 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:pg29672:20:136
# text = Then he came to his right mind, and cried aloud that they should bring in lights, and he saw that his faithful wife was quite an old woman.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
27	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | husband |  |  | husband's right mind | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mind=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring in** | should | WIVES *= wife* | lights |  |  |  |  | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme light=Asset |
| 4 | **see** | past | husband |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** | past | husband's faithful wife | a old woman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **mind** |  | husband |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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