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title: And immediately she drew out of the ground a handkerchief with gold… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And immediately she drew out of the ground a handkerchief with gold borders, and no sooner had she waved this serpentine handkerchief, than Ivan fell asunder into two pieces. Who acts: princess, Ivan. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, with its
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 146

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And immediately she drew out of the ground a handkerchief with gold borders, and no sooner had she waved this serpentine handkerchief, than Ivan fell asunder into two pieces.

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**Who acts:** princess, Ivan · **What happens:** draw out, have, wave, fall · **To what, where:** ground, serpentine handkerchief, asunder, two pieces

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, Ivan), 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:pg29672:26:146
# text = And immediately she drew out of the ground a handkerchief with gold borders, and no sooner had she waved this serpentine handkerchief, than Ivan fell asunder into two pieces.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	waved	wave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
22	serpentine	serpentine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
28	asunder	asunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw out** | past | princess | the ground |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Beneficiary ground=Result |
| 2 | **have** | past | princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wave** | past | princess | this serpentine handkerchief |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient |
| 4 | **fall** | past | Ivan | asunder |  | two pieces |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient asunder=Result |

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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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