--- title: But Ivan stood up and gazed at the sky and said, "Look now! if St Pe… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But Ivan stood up and gazed at the sky and said, "Look now! if St Peter hath not already burnt my incense and made of it that large white cloud that is sailing above my head!" Who acts: Ivan, that, large white cloud. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan, that, large white cloud), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29672:23:68 # text = But Ivan stood up and gazed at the sky and said, "Look now! if St Peter hath not already burnt my incense and made of it that large white cloud that is sailing above my head!" 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Ivan Ivan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 gazed gaze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 15 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ! ! PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ 17 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 18 St St PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 Peter Peter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 22 already already ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 burnt burnt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 advcl _ _ 24 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 incense incense NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 31 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 parataxis _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 sailing sail VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 acl:relcl _ _ 37 above above ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ! ! PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand up** | past | Ivan | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **gaze** | participle | Ivan *not said here* | | | | | at the sky | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sky=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Ivan *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | now | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **not** **burnt** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | St Peter | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **make** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | of incense | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 7 | **cloud** *in a quote* | | that | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **sail** *in a quote* | present · progressive | large white cloud | | | my head | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/23/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/23/69/) - ↑ back to [The Two Princes, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/23/)