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title: Maybe he had been a whole year in the whale without knowing it, and… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Maybe he had been a whole year in the whale without knowing it, and he thought to himself, "How shall I now manage to live in the wide, wide world?" Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 67

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Maybe he had been a whole year in the whale without knowing it, and he thought to himself, "How shall I now manage to live in the wide, wide world?"

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** know, be, manage, live · **To what, where:** whale, Prince, wide wide world · **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 (Prince), 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:pg29672:25:67
# text = Maybe he had been a whole year in the whale without knowing it, and he thought to himself, "How shall I now manage to live in the wide, wide world?"
1	Maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
26	manage	manage	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | whale |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **be** *speech: other* | participle | Prince |  | Prince |  |  | think *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **manage** *in a quote* | shall | Prince |  |  |  | now |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **live** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* |  |  | the wide wide world |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=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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