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title: Then they unsealed it and opened it and scattered the contents--and… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they unsealed it and opened it and scattered the contents--and it was full of nothing but glass! Who acts: prayers, coffer. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 33

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Then they unsealed it and opened it and scattered the contents--and it was full of nothing but glass!

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**Who acts:** prayers, coffer · **What happens:** unseal, open, scatter, be · **To what, where:** coffer, contents

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prayers, coffer), 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:pg29672:23:33
# text = Then they unsealed it and opened it and scattered the contents--and it was full of nothing but glass!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	unsealed	unseal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	obl	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unseal** | past | prayers *= prayer* | coffer |  |  | then |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **open** | past | prayers *= prayer* *not said here* | coffer |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 3 | **scatter** | past | prayers *= prayer* *not said here* | the contents |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent contents=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | coffer |  |  |  |  | of nothing; full *property* | 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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