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title: And the archer obeyed him, and slew the second cow, and the eagle li… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the archer obeyed him, and slew the second cow, and the eagle lived upon that for yet another year. Who acts: archer, eagle. 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 28

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And the archer obeyed him, and slew the second cow, and the eagle lived upon that for yet another year.

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**Who acts:** archer, eagle · **What happens:** obey, slay, live · **To what, where:** eagle, second cow, that

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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 (archer, eagle), 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:pg29672:24:28
# text = And the archer obeyed him, and slew the second cow, and the eagle lived upon that for yet another year.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	archer	archer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	obeyed	obey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	obl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obey** | past | the archer | eagle |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **slay** | past | the archer *not said here* | the second cow |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient |
| 3 | **live** | past | the eagle |  |  | that | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon that=Location |

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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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