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title: One day they were all sitting down there when they heard something i… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One day they were all sitting down there when they heard something in the mountain crying, "Catch hold! catch hold! catch hold!" Who acts: people. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 15

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One day they were all sitting down there when they heard something in the mountain crying, "Catch hold! catch hold! catch hold!"

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** sit down, hear, cry, catch · **To what, where:** catch hold, something, mountain, hold · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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:pg29672:25:15
# text = One day they were all sitting down there when they heard something in the mountain crying, "Catch hold! catch hold! catch hold!"
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
20	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
22	catch	catch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
25	catch	catch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past · progressive | people | catch hold |  | there | day | all, down *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | past | people | something |  | the mountain |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **catch** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | hold |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme |

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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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