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title: I'll go and ask that swineherd what he's doing there," thought Ivan… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I'll go and ask that swineherd what he's doing there," thought Ivan Golik. Who acts: I, swineherd. 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 54

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I'll go and ask that swineherd what he's doing there," thought Ivan Golik.

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**Who acts:** I, swineherd · **What happens:** go, ask, do, think · **To what, where:** Ivan · **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 (I, swineherd), 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:pg29672:27:54
# text = I'll go and ask that swineherd what he's doing there," thought Ivan Golik.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
16	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	Golik	Golik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | present · progressive | swineherd |  |  | there |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | swineherd *not said here* | Ivan |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ivan=Theme |

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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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