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title: They rushed up to her, and saw the serpent already nestling beneath… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They rushed up to her, and saw the serpent already nestling beneath the cushions. Who acts: sparks. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 33

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They rushed up to her, and saw the serpent already nestling beneath the cushions.

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**Who acts:** sparks · **What happens:** rush up, see, nestle · **To what, where:** Tsarivna, serpent, cushions

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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 (sparks), 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:pg29672:27:33
# text = They rushed up to her, and saw the serpent already nestling beneath the cushions.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	already	already	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	nestling	nestle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush up** | past | sparks *= spark* |  | Tsarivna |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to she=Result |
| 2 | **see** | past | sparks *= spark* *not said here* | the serpent |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer serpent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **nestle** | gerund | sparks *= spark* *not said here* |  |  | the cushions |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath cushion=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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