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title: Now some huntsmen happened to be going along the beach at that time,… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now some huntsmen happened to be going along the beach at that time, and one of them saw the whale, and said, "Look, my brethren! we have been hunting jays and crows and shot nothing, and lo! what a monstrous fish lies all about the shore! Who acts: huntsmen, one, we, monstrous fish. A sentence of «
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 61

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Now some huntsmen happened to be going along the beach at that time, and one of them saw the whale, and said, "Look, my brethren! we have been hunting jays and crows and shot nothing, and lo! what a monstrous fish lies all about the shore!

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**Who acts:** huntsmen, one, we, monstrous fish · **What happens:** happen, go, see, say, look, hunt · **To what, where:** beach, whale, brethren, jays, nothing · **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 (huntsmen, one, we, monstrous fish), 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:pg29672:25:61
# text = Now some huntsmen happened to be going along the beach at that time, and one of them saw the whale, and said, "Look, my brethren! we have been hunting jays and crows and shot nothing, and lo! what a monstrous fish lies all about the shore!
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
7	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
8	along	along	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
32	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	aux	_	_
35	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
36	jays	jay	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
41	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	46	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	44	punct	_	_
46	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	parataxis	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
50	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	acl:relcl	_	_
51	all	all	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
52	about	about	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | some huntsmen |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive · progressive | some huntsmen *not said here* |  |  | the beach | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme along beach=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **see** | past | one of huntsmen | the whale |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whale=Stimulus |
| 4 | **say** *speech: express* | past | one of huntsmen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | my brethren |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **hunt** *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | we | jays and crows |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jay=Theme |
| 7 | **shoot** *in a quote* | past | we *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
| 8 | **lie** *in a quote* | present | a monstrous fish |  |  |  |  | about the shore | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about shore=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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