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title: At this the Tsar lark was wrath, and collected all the birds of the… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At this the Tsar lark was wrath, and collected all the birds of the air to make war upon the mouse Tsaritsa; but the Tsaritsa called together all the beasts to defend her, and so the war began. Who acts: lark wrath, war. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg, with its dep
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 8

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At this the Tsar lark was wrath, and collected all the birds of the air to make war upon the mouse Tsaritsa; but the Tsaritsa called together all the beasts to defend her, and so the war began.

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**Who acts:** lark wrath, war · **What happens:** be, collect, make, call together, defend, begin · **To what, where:** lark wrath, birds, war, Tsaritsa

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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 (lark wrath, war), 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:pg29672:24:8
# text = At this the Tsar lark was wrath, and collected all the birds of the air to make war upon the mouse Tsaritsa; but the Tsaritsa called together all the beasts to defend her, and so the war began.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	lark	lark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	collected	collect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
19	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	Tsaritsa	Tsaritsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Tsaritsa	Tsaritsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
29	together	together	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	xcomp	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	defend	defend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
35	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | lark wrath |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **collect** | past | lark wrath | all birds of the air |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | lark wrath *not said here* | war |  |  |  | upon the mouse | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset war=Product |
| 4 | **call together** *speech: assert* | participle · passive |  | the Tsaritsa |  |  |  | together *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **defend** | to-infinitive |  |  | Tsaritsa |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **begin** | past | the war |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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