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title: "Stop!" cried Legless; "we'll hide in the straw in thy room, and whe… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Stop!" cried Legless; "we'll hide in the straw in thy room, and when the serpent comes flying in again, thou must cough and wake us." Who acts: Legless, we, serpent, thou. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 31

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"Stop!" cried Legless; "we'll hide in the straw in thy room, and when the serpent comes flying in again, thou must cough and wake us."

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**Who acts:** Legless, we, serpent, thou · **What happens:** stop, cry, hide, come, fly in, cough · **To what, where:** straw, 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Legless, we, serpent, thou), 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:pg29672:27:31
# text = "Stop!" cried Legless; "we'll hide in the straw in thy room, and when the serpent comes flying in again, thou must cough and wake us."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Legless	Legless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
20	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	23	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
24	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	xcomp	_	_
25	in	in	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	again	again	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
28	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nsubj	_	_
29	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	cough	cough	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	wake	wake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
33	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Legless |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **hide** *in a quote* | future | we |  |  | the straw |  | in thy room | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in straw=Location |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | present | the serpent |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fly in** *in a quote* | gerund | the serpent *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **cough** *in a quote* | must | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **wake** *in a quote* | infinitive | thou *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent we=Patient |

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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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