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title: So the poor fellow stooped down and kissed its bristles, and the pig… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the poor fellow stooped down and kissed its bristles, and the pig ran grunting into the courtyard. Who acts: poor fellow, 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.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 78

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So the poor fellow stooped down and kissed its bristles, and the pig ran grunting into the courtyard.

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**Who acts:** poor fellow, pig · **What happens:** stoop down, kiss, run, grunt · **To what, where:** poor fellow, bristles, courtyard

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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 (poor fellow, pig), 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:pg29672:27:78
# text = So the poor fellow stooped down and kissed its bristles, and the pig ran grunting into the courtyard.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	stooped	stoop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	bristles	bristle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	grunting	grunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stoop down** | participle |  | the poor fellow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **kiss** | past | the poor fellow | fool's bristles |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bristle=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **run** | past | the pig |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **grunt** | gerund | the pig *not said here* |  |  | the courtyard |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into courtyard=Recipient |

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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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