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title: I did, indeed, pass on the road some standing wheat and an old man w… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I did, indeed, pass on the road some standing wheat and an old man watching it, and I asked the old man if he had seen a lad and a lass pass by that way, and he said, 'Yes, while this wheat was being sown,' but the wheat was quite ripe for the sickle, so I knew it was a long while ago and turned bac
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 120

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I did, indeed, pass on the road some standing wheat and an old man watching it, and I asked the old man if he had seen a lad and a lass pass by that way, and he said, 'Yes, while this wheat was being sown,' but the wheat was quite ripe for the sickle, so I knew it was a long while ago and turned back."--"Why didst thou not tear that old man and the wheat to pieces?" cried the she-dragon; "it was they!

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**Who acts:** I, old man, man, wheat, thou, dragon · **What happens:** do, pass, stand, watch, ask, see · **To what, where:** standing wheat, road, wheat, old man, lad, long while · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, old man, man, wheat), 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:pg29672:24:120
# text = I did, indeed, pass on the road some standing wheat and an old man watching it, and I asked the old man if he had seen a lad and a lass pass by that way, and he said, 'Yes, while this wheat was being sown,' but the wheat was quite ripe for the sickle, so I knew it was a long while ago and turned back."--"Why didst thou not tear that old man and the wheat to pieces?" cried the she-dragon; "it was they!
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	lass	lass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	pass	pass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	det	_	_
38	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
47	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
48	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	49	det	_	_
49	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj:pass	_	_
50	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux:pass	_	_
51	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	52	aux:pass	_	_
52	sown	sow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	52	punct	_	_
55	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nsubj	_	_
58	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	cop	_	_
59	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
60	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	conj	_	_
61	for	for	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	sickle	sickle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
65	so	so	ADV	RB	_	67	advmod	_	_
66	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	67	nsubj	_	_
67	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
68	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	72	nsubj	_	_
69	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	72	cop	_	_
70	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	72	det	_	_
71	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	72	amod	_	_
72	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	ccomp	_	_
73	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	72	advmod	_	_
74	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	75	cc	_	_
75	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
76	back	back	ADV	RB	_	75	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	75	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
78	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	75	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
79	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	82	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
80	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	82	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
81	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	82	advmod	_	_
82	didst	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
83	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	85	nsubj	_	_
84	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	82	advmod	_	_
85	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	82	ccomp	_	_
86	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	88	det	_	_
87	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	88	amod	_	_
88	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	85	obj	_	_
89	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	91	cc	_	_
90	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	91	det	_	_
91	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	88	conj	_	_
92	to	to	ADP	IN	_	93	case	_	_
93	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	91	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
94	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	85	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
95	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	85	punct	_	_
96	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	82	conj	_	_
97	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	100	det	_	_
98	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	100	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
99	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	100	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
100	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	96	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
101	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	105	punct	_	_
102	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	105	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
103	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	105	nsubj	_	_
104	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	105	cop	_	_
105	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
106	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	105	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pass** | infinitive | I *not said here* | some standing wheat and a old man |  | the road |  | indeed *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent wheat=Theme on road=Destination |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **watch** | gerund | a old man *not said here* | wheat |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | I |  | the old man |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient |
| 6 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | man | a lad and a lass pass |  |  |  | by that way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lad=Stimulus |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic |
| 8 | **sow** | past · passive |  | this wheat |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 9 | **is** | past | the wheat |  |  |  |  | for the sickle; ripe *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **know** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 11 | **is a** | past | wheat | a long while |  |  |  | ago *property* | tree rules |
| 12 | **turn back** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 13 | **not** **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 14 | **tear** | infinitive | thou | that old man and the wheat to pieces |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location man=Theme |
| 15 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 16 | **dragon** *in a quote* |  | dragon |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 17 | **is a** | past | wheat | lad |  |  |  |  | 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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