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title: Now, when Wednesday thought that all the people were asleep, he went… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, when Wednesday thought that all the people were asleep, he went out into the courtyard to sharpen his sabre. Who acts: Wednesday, people, brother. 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 160

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Now, when Wednesday thought that all the people were asleep, he went out into the courtyard to sharpen his sabre.

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**Who acts:** Wednesday, people, brother · **What happens:** think, be, go out, sharpen · **To what, where:** courtyard, sabre · **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 (Wednesday, people, brother), 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:pg29672:24:160
# text = Now, when Wednesday thought that all the people were asleep, he went out into the courtyard to sharpen his sabre.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
15	out	out	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	sharpen	sharpen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	sabre	sabre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Wednesday |  |  |  | now |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | all people |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go out** | past | brother |  |  | the courtyard |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sharpen** | to-infinitive | brother *not said here* | brother's sabre |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sabre=Patient |

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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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