---
title: Dost thou see that accursed pig that leads the others? — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Dost thou see that accursed pig that leads the others? Who acts: thou, accursed pig. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/70/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / [The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/) / 70

# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 70

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Dost thou see that accursed pig that leads the others?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** thou, accursed pig · **What happens:** see, accurs, lead · **To what, where:** accursed pig, others

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (thou, accursed pig), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg29672:27:70
# text = Dost thou see that accursed pig that leads the others?
1	Dost	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	accursed	accurs	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	leads	lead	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · do-support | thou | accursed pig |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pig=Stimulus |
| 2 | **accurs** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lead** | present | accursed pig | the others |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/69/)
- next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/71/)
- ↑ back to [The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/)

