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title: Yes, little brother, he _is_ pursuing!"--"Wave thy handkerchief on t… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Yes, little brother, he _is_ pursuing!"--"Wave thy handkerchief on the left side!" said the foal. Who acts: brother, _, _ pursuing. 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 172

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Yes, little brother, he \_is\_ pursuing!"--"Wave thy handkerchief on the left side!" said the foal.

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**Who acts:** brother, \_, \_ pursuing · **What happens:** \_, be, wave, say · **To what, where:** \_ pursuing, handkerchief, left side, foal · **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 (brother, \_, \_ pursuing), 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:pg29672:24:172
# text = Yes, little brother, he _is_ pursuing!"--"Wave thy handkerchief on the left side!" said the foal.
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	pursuing	pursuing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Wave	wave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
16	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	foal	foal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **\_** |  | brother |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | little brother's \_ | \_ pursuing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wave** | infinitive |  | thy handkerchief |  | the left side |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | \_ pursuing | the foal |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent foal=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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