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title: Whenever the beasts came rushing out of the wood to tear the birds t… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Whenever the beasts came rushing out of the wood to tear the birds to pieces, the birds flew up into the trees; but the birds kept in the air, and hacked and pecked the beasts wherever they could. Who acts: beasts, birds. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg, with its de
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 9

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Whenever the beasts came rushing out of the wood to tear the birds to pieces, the birds flew up into the trees; but the birds kept in the air, and hacked and pecked the beasts wherever they could.

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**Who acts:** beasts, birds · **What happens:** come, rush out, tear, fly up, keep, hack · **To what, where:** birds, wood, pieces, trees, air, beasts

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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 (beasts, birds), 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:pg29672:24:9
# text = Whenever the beasts came rushing out of the wood to tear the birds to pieces, the birds flew up into the trees; but the birds kept in the air, and hacked and pecked the beasts wherever they could.
1	Whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
5	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
28	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	hacked	hack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	pecked	peck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
39	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	41	advmod	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the beasts | the birds |  |  |  | whenever *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rush out** | gerund | the beasts *not said here* | the wood |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Trajectory |
| 3 | **tear** | to-infinitive | the beasts *not said here* | the birds |  |  |  | to pieces *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent bird=Patient to piece=Result |
| 4 | **fly up** | past | the birds | pieces *not said here* |  | the trees |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent piece=Theme into tree=Trajectory |
| 5 | **keep** | participle |  | the birds *not said here* |  | the air |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location |
| 6 | **hack** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **peck** | past |  | the beasts |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Patient |

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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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