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title: He unfastened it with greedy, trembling hands; but he had no sooner… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He unfastened it with greedy, trembling hands; but he had no sooner opened it than the Unlucky Days all popped out and clung on to him. " Who acts: family, Unlucky Days. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 34

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He unfastened it with greedy, trembling hands; but he had no sooner opened it than the Unlucky Days all popped out and clung on to him. "

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**Who acts:** family, Unlucky Days · **What happens:** unfasten, tremble, have, open, pop out, cling · **To what, where:** straightway, hands

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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 (family, Unlucky Days), 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:pg29672:25:34
# text = He unfastened it with greedy, trembling hands; but he had no sooner opened it than the Unlucky Days all popped out and clung on to him. "
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	unfastened	unfasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Days	Day	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	popped	pop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	clung	cling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unfasten** | past | family | straightway |  |  |  | with greedy | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **tremble** | gerund | family *not said here* | hands |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | family |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **open** | past | family *not said here* | straightway |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 5 | **pop out** | past | the Unlucky Days |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **cling** | participle | the Unlucky Days *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on family | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=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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