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title: So he took the dog and tied it up, and immediately he was turned to… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he took the dog and tied it up, and immediately he was turned to stone, and the dog too, for the old woman was a pagan witch. Who acts: brother, old woman. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 8

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So he took the dog and tied it up, and immediately he was turned to stone, and the dog too, for the old woman was a pagan witch.

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**Who acts:** brother, old woman · **What happens:** take, tie up, turn, be · **To what, where:** dog, brother, stone

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, 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:pg29672:22:8
# text = So he took the dog and tied it up, and immediately he was turned to stone, and the dog too, for the old woman was a pagan witch.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	pagan	pagan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | brother |  | the dog |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination |
| 2 | **tie up** | past | brother *not said here* | dog |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **turn** | past · passive |  | brother |  | stone |  | immediately *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to stone=Trajectory |
| 4 | **is** | past | the old woman |  |  |  |  | for a pagan witch | tree rules |

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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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