--- title: Then they went on and on till the foal said to him again, "Look behi… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then they went on and on till the foal said to him again, "Look behind, and see if Wednesday is still pursuing!"--He looked round. " Who acts: bridegrooms, foal, Wednesday. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/171/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / [The Magic Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/) / 171 # Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 171 Then they went on and on till the foal said to him again, "Look behind, and see if Wednesday is still pursuing!"--He looked round. " **Who acts:** bridegrooms, foal, Wednesday · **What happens:** go, say, look, see, pursue, look round · **To what, where:** brother · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (bridegrooms, foal, Wednesday), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29672:24:171 # text = Then they went on and on till the foal said to him again, "Look behind, and see if Wednesday is still pursuing!"--He looked round. " 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 on on ADV RB _ 4 conj _ _ 7 till till SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 foal foal NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 13 again again ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 Look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 17 behind behind ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 see see VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 Wednesday Wednesday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 still still ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 pursuing pursue VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ! ! PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 -- -- PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 31 round round ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | bridegrooms *= bridegroom* | | | | then | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the foal | | brother | | again | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | behind *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **pursue** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · progressive | Wednesday | | | | still | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **look round** | past | foal | | | | | round *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 170](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/170/) - next →: [sentence 172](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/172/) - ↑ back to [The Magic Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/)