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title: He played on and on till evening, when he drove the cattle home agai… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He played on and on till evening, when he drove the cattle home again, and they were all as hungry as could be, and wearied to death from dancing. Who acts: Ivan, cattle. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 90

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He played on and on till evening, when he drove the cattle home again, and they were all as hungry as could be, and wearied to death from dancing.

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**Who acts:** Ivan, cattle · **What happens:** play, drive, be, weary · **To what, where:** cattle, dancing

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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:pg29672:23:90
# text = He played on and on till evening, when he drove the cattle home again, and they were all as hungry as could be, and wearied to death from dancing.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	_
6	till	till	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	home	home	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	wearied	weary	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **play** | past | Ivan |  |  |  | evening |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drive** | past | Ivan | the cattle |  |  | again | home *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | cattle |  |  |  |  | all, hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **weary** | participle | Ivan *not said here* |  |  | dancing |  | to death | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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