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title: He saw the princess sitting in the gallery with six serpents drinkin… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He saw the princess sitting in the gallery with six serpents drinking tea, and the accursed pig stuck fast in the gate, and stretched out its legs and wouldn't go in. Who acts: Ivan, princess, six serpents. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, wi
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 76

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He saw the princess sitting in the gallery with six serpents drinking tea, and the accursed pig stuck fast in the gate, and stretched out its legs and wouldn't go in.

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**Who acts:** Ivan, princess, six serpents · **What happens:** see, sit, drink, accurs, stick, stretch out · **To what, where:** princess, gallery, tea, accursed pig, gate, legs

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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 (Ivan, princess, six serpents), 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:pg29672:27:76
# text = He saw the princess sitting in the gallery with six serpents drinking tea, and the accursed pig stuck fast in the gate, and stretched out its legs and wouldn't go in.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gallery	gallery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
12	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	accursed	accurs	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
20	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Ivan | the princess |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | the princess *not said here* |  |  | the gallery |  | with six serpents | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in gallery=Location |
| 3 | **drink** | gerund | six serpents *not said here* | tea |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Patient |
| 4 | **accurs** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **stick** | participle · passive |  | the accursed pig |  | the gate |  | fast *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in gate=Destination |
| 6 | **stretch out** | participle | Ivan *not said here* | gate's legs |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 7 | **not** **go in** | would | Ivan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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