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title: The princess looked on and said, "Look at my fool driving the swine,… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The princess looked on and said, "Look at my fool driving the swine, and now he is going to kiss the big boar!" Who acts: princess, fool, Ivan. 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 77

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The princess looked on and said, "Look at my fool driving the swine, and now he is going to kiss the big boar!"

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**Who acts:** princess, fool, Ivan · **What happens:** look on, say, look, drive, go, kiss · **To what, where:** swine, big boar · **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 (princess, fool, Ivan), 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:pg29672:27:77
# text = The princess looked on and said, "Look at my fool driving the swine, and now he is going to kiss the big boar!"
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	swine	swine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	kiss	kiss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look on** | past | the princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | at my fool | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at fool=Theme |
| 4 | **drive** *in a quote* | gerund | my fool *not said here* | the swine |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme swine=Trajectory |
| 5 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Ivan |  |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **kiss** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Ivan *not said here* | the big boar |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boar=Co-Agent |

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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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