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title: First he twined tightly a pood of hemp, and tarred it well with a po… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: First he twined tightly a pood of hemp, and tarred it well with a pood of pitch; round this he plaited another pood of hemp, and tarred that also with another pood of pitch, till he had used up the whole forty. Who acts: Ivan. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlu
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 83

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First he twined tightly a pood of hemp, and tarred it well with a pood of pitch; round this he plaited another pood of hemp, and tarred that also with another pood of pitch, till he had used up the whole forty.

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**Who acts:** Ivan · **What happens:** twine, tar, plait, use up · **To what, where:** pood, hemp, that, whole forty

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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), 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:pg29672:27:83
# text = First he twined tightly a pood of hemp, and tarred it well with a pood of pitch; round this he plaited another pood of hemp, and tarred that also with another pood of pitch, till he had used up the whole forty.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	twined	twine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pood	pood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hemp	hemp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	tarred	tar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	pood	pood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	round	round	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	plaited	plait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	pood	pood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	hemp	hemp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	tarred	tar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	obj	_	_
32	also	also	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
35	pood	pood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	conj	_	_
43	up	up	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **twine** | past | Ivan | a pood of hemp |  |  |  | first *property* | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pood=Theme |
| 2 | **tar** | past | Ivan *not said here* | hemp |  |  |  | with a pood of pitch; well *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with pood=Theme |
| 3 | **plait** | past | Ivan | another pood of hemp |  |  |  | round this | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pood=Patient |
| 4 | **tar** | past | Ivan *not said here* | that |  |  |  | with another pood of pitch | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent that=Destination with pood=Theme |
| 5 | **use up** | past · perfect | Ivan | the whole forty |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=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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