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title: A forest lay along the road, and in this forest the old man met a no… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A forest lay along the road, and in this forest the old man met a nobleman driving along. Who acts: forest, nobleman. 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 95

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A forest lay along the road, and in this forest the old man met a nobleman driving along.

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**Who acts:** forest, nobleman · **What happens:** meet, drive · **To what, where:** nobleman, forest

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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 (forest, nobleman), 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:pg29672:22:95
# text = A forest lay along the road, and in this forest the old man met a nobleman driving along.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	lay	lay	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	along	along	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	along	along	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | a forest along the road | a nobleman |  | this forest |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobleman=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **drive** | gerund | a nobleman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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