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title: There they stood for a long time looking into each other's eyes, but… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There they stood for a long time looking into each other's eyes, but neither of them spoke a word. Who acts: eyes, neither. 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 57

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There they stood for a long time looking into each other's eyes, but neither of them spoke a word.

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**Who acts:** eyes, neither · **What happens:** stand, look, speak · **To what, where:** word · **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 (eyes, neither), 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:pg29672:27:57
# text = There they stood for a long time looking into each other's eyes, but neither of them spoke a word.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | eyes *= eye* |  |  | there | time |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | eyes *= eye* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into each other eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=Theme |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | neither | a word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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