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title: Now the evening before the wedding they heard a young damsel crying… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the evening before the wedding they heard a young damsel crying _Shishki_[28] in the streets. Who acts: fish, young damsel. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 141

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Now the evening before the wedding they heard a young damsel crying \_Shishki\_\[28\] in the streets.

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**Who acts:** fish, young damsel · **What happens:** hear, cry · **To what, where:** young damsel, streets, Shishki

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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 (fish, young damsel), 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:pg29672:24:141
# text = Now the evening before the wedding they heard a young damsel crying _Shishki_[28] in the streets.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	damsel	damsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Shishki	Shishki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | fish | a young damsel |  | the streets | now; evening | 28 *obl* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer damsel=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | a young damsel *not said here* | Shishki |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shishki=Topic |

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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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