--- title: So when he came thither and fell a-weeping, she asked him, "Wherefor… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So when he came thither and fell a-weeping, she asked him, "Wherefore dost thou weep?"--And he said, "How can I help weeping? Who acts: Ivan, dragon. 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/pg29672/24/79/) [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/) / 79 # Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 79 So when he came thither and fell a-weeping, she asked him, "Wherefore dost thou weep?"--And he said, "How can I help weeping? **Who acts:** Ivan, dragon · **What happens:** come, fall, ask, do, weep, say · **To what, where:** weeping, Ivan, thou · **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 (Ivan, dragon), 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:pg29672:24:79 # text = So when he came thither and fell a-weeping, she asked him, "Wherefore dost thou weep?"--And he said, "How can I help weeping? 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 thither thither ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 weeping weeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Wherefore wherefore ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 18 dost do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 19 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 obj _ _ 20 weep weep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ? ? PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 -- -- PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 And and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ _ 33 weeping weep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | Ivan | | | | | thither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **fall** | past | Ivan *not said here* | a weeping | | | | | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient weeping=Result | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | dragon | | Ivan | | | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **do** *in a quote* | present | | thou | | | | wherefore *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **weep** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Ivan | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **help** *in a quote* | can | Ivan | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **weep** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/80/) - ↑ back to [The Magic Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/)