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title: He waved it on the left side, and immediately between them and the p… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He waved it on the left side, and immediately between them and the pursuer stood a forest so thick that not even a little mouse could have squeezed through it. Who acts: foal, forest, little mouse. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 173

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He waved it on the left side, and immediately between them and the pursuer stood a forest so thick that not even a little mouse could have squeezed through it.

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**Who acts:** foal, forest, little mouse · **What happens:** wave, stand, squeeze · **To what, where:** handkerchief, left side

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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, forest, little mouse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg29672:1761`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg29672:24:173
# text = He waved it on the left side, and immediately between them and the pursuer stood a forest so thick that not even a little mouse could have squeezed through it.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	waved	wave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	pursuer	pursuer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
23	even	even	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux	_	_
29	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
30	through	through	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wave** | past | foal | handkerchief |  | the left side |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **stand** | past | a forest |  |  |  |  | between bridegrooms *= bridegroom* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between they=Location |
| 3 | **squeeze** | could · perfect | a little mouse |  |  | handkerchief |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through it=Trajectory |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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