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title: He looked round: "Yes, little brother," said he, "Wednesday _is_ pur… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He looked round: "Yes, little brother," said he, "Wednesday _is_ pursuing!"--"Shake thy kerchief then!" said the foal. Who acts: foal, little brother, Wednesday _. 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 169

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He looked round: "Yes, little brother," said he, "Wednesday \_is\_ pursuing!"--"Shake thy kerchief then!" said the foal.

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**Who acts:** foal, little brother, Wednesday \_ · **What happens:** look, say, be, shake · **To what, where:** \_ pursuing, kerchief · **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 (foal, little brother, Wednesday \_), 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:pg29672:24:169
# text = He looked round: "Yes, little brother," said he, "Wednesday _is_ pursuing!"--"Shake thy kerchief then!" said the foal.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	pursuing	pursuing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
26	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	kerchief	kerchief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
31	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	foal	foal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	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 | **look** | past | foal |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | little brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Wednesday \_ | \_ pursuing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shake** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | thy kerchief |  |  | then |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent kerchief=Patient |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the foal |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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