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title: On and on they tramped along the road, but the Unlucky Days clung on… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On and on they tramped along the road, but the Unlucky Days clung on to the man behind, and said, "Why dost thou not take us with thee? Who acts: clothes, 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 pragmat
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 8

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On and on they tramped along the road, but the Unlucky Days clung on to the man behind, and said, "Why dost thou not take us with thee?

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**Who acts:** clothes, Unlucky Days · **What happens:** tramp, cling, say, do, not take · **To what, where:** road, thou, us · **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 (clothes, 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:pg29672:25:8
# text = On and on they tramped along the road, but the Unlucky Days clung on to the man behind, and said, "Why dost thou not take us with thee?
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	1	conj	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tramped	tramp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
6	along	along	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Days	Day	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	clung	cling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
26	dost	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
27	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	obj	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
30	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tramp** | past | clothes |  |  | the road |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory |
| 2 | **cling** | participle | the Unlucky Days |  |  |  |  | on the man; behind *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on man=Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | present |  | thou |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | us |  |  | with thee | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument we=Destination |

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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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