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title: In the evening Ivan drove them home, but they were so famished that… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the evening Ivan drove them home, but they were so famished that they tugged at the dirty straw roofs of the huts they passed, and so got a chance mouthful or two. Who acts: Ivan, cattle. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2, with its dependency tree and the
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 86

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In the evening Ivan drove them home, but they were so famished that they tugged at the dirty straw roofs of the huts they passed, and so got a chance mouthful or two.

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**Who acts:** Ivan, cattle · **What happens:** drive, famish, tug, pass, get · **To what, where:** cattle, huts, chance mouthful

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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 (Ivan, cattle), 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:pg29672:23:86
# text = In the evening Ivan drove them home, but they were so famished that they tugged at the dirty straw roofs of the huts they passed, and so got a chance mouthful or two.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	famished	famish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	tugged	tug	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	roofs	roof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | past | Ivan | cattle |  |  | evening | home *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **famish** | past · passive |  | cattle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tug** | past | cattle |  |  |  |  | at the dirty straw roofs of the huts | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at roof=Theme |
| 4 | **pass** | past | cattle | the huts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Trajectory |
| 5 | **get** | past | cattle *not said here* | a chance mouthful |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouthful=Stimulus |

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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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