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title: Then St Peter drew forth a little fife from his bosom and gave it to… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then St Peter drew forth a little fife from his bosom and gave it to him, and took away the incense, and who can say where he went with it? Who acts: St Peter, PETER. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 67

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Then St Peter drew forth a little fife from his bosom and gave it to him, and took away the incense, and who can say where he went with it?

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**Who acts:** St Peter, PETER · **What happens:** draw, give, take away, say, go, bosom · **To what, where:** little fife, bosom, FIFE, PETER, incense · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (St Peter, PETER), 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:pg29672:23:67
# text = Then St Peter drew forth a little fife from his bosom and gave it to him, and took away the incense, and who can say where he went with it?
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	St	St	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fife	fife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	away	away	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	_
28	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **draw** | past | St Peter | a little fife |  | PETER's bosom | then | forth *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent fife=Theme from bosom=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **give** | past | St Peter *not said here* | FIFE | PETER |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient |
| 3 | **take away** | past | St Peter *not said here* | the incense |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incense=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | can |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **go** | past | PETER |  |  |  |  | with incense | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **bosom** |  | PETER |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state 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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