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title: There is an evil smell of Cossack bones about the house!"--"No, it i… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There is an evil smell of Cossack bones about the house!"--"No, it is not that," said his mother, "but a young woman has taken shelter here, who says that she is going in search of her husband."--"Then, mother, give her the little silver apple, and let her go, for her husband is in another kingdom."
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 93

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There is an evil smell of Cossack bones about the house!"--"No, it is not that," said his mother, "but a young woman has taken shelter here, who says that she is going in search of her husband."--"Then, mother, give her the little silver apple, and let her go, for her husband is in another kingdom."

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**Who acts:** evil smell, smell, young woman, woman, mother, husband · **What happens:** be, not be, say, take, go, give · **To what, where:** mother, shelter, search, little silver apple, woman, husband · **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 (evil smell, smell, young woman, 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:pg29672:20:93
# text = There is an evil smell of Cossack bones about the house!"--"No, it is not that," said his mother, "but a young woman has taken shelter here, who says that she is going in search of her husband."--"Then, mother, give her the little silver apple, and let her go, for her husband is in another kingdom."
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|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	nsubj	_	_
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	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	21	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	that	that	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
35	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
39	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	ccomp	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	57	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
55	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
57	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	ccomp	_	_
58	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	iobj	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
60	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
61	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	compound	_	_
62	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
65	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	conj	_	_
66	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	obj	_	_
67	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	65	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	75	punct	_	_
69	for	for	ADP	IN	_	75	case	_	_
70	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	71	nmod:poss	_	_
71	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	75	nsubj	_	_
72	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	75	cop	_	_
73	in	in	ADP	IN	_	75	case	_	_
74	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	75	det	_	_
75	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a evil smell of Cossack bones about the house |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | smell |  |  |  |  | that *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  | God's mother |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=Topic |
| 4 | **take** | present · perfect | a young woman | shelter |  | here |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **go** | present · progressive | woman |  |  | search of woman's husband |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location |
| 7 | **give** | infinitive | mother | the little silver apple | woman |  | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient apple=Theme |
| 8 | **let** | infinitive | mother *not said here* | woman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **go** | infinitive | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **is** | present | mother's husband |  |  |  |  | for another kingdom | tree rules |
| 11 | **smell** |  | Cossack bones about the house |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
| 12 | **search** |  |  | woman's husband |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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