--- title: They cut and hacked at it till suddenly they heard something calling… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: They cut and hacked at it till suddenly they heard something calling to them from the middle of the fish, "Ho! my brothers! hack fish if you like, but hack not that flesh which is full of Christian blood!" Who acts: fishes, flesh. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fishes, flesh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29672:25:64 # text = They cut and hacked at it till suddenly they heard something calling to them from the middle of the fish, "Ho! my brothers! hack fish if you like, but hack not that flesh which is full of Christian blood!" 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 cut cut VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 hacked hack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 till till SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 11 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 obj _ _ 12 calling call VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Ho Ho PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 25 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ! ! PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ 28 hack hack VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 29 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 if if SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 hack hack VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 37 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 38 det _ _ 38 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 41 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 acl:relcl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 Christian Christian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ! ! PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut** | present | fishes *= fish* | my brothers | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **hack** | participle | fishes *= fish* *not said here* | | | | | at whale | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at it=Patient | | 3 | **hear** | past | fishes *= fish* | something | | | | Ho *obl*; suddenly *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | | 4 | **call** *speech: express* | gerund | | | fishes *= fish* | the middle of the fish | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | | 5 | **hack** *in a quote* | infinitive | fishes *= fish* *not said here* | fish | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Product | | 6 | **like** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | fishes *= fish* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 7 | **not** **hack** *in a quote* | infinitive | | that flesh | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Product | | 8 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that flesh | | | | | of Christian blood; full *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/25/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/25/65/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/25/)