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title: Then Armless kicked Legless up to the oak, and Legless pulled it up… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Armless kicked Legless up to the oak, and Legless pulled it up and gave it to Armless. Who acts: Armless, Legless. 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 9

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Then Armless kicked Legless up to the oak, and Legless pulled it up and gave it to Armless.

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**Who acts:** Armless, Legless · **What happens:** kick, pull up, give · **To what, where:** oak, Armless

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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 (Armless, Legless), 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:pg29672:27:9
# text = Then Armless kicked Legless up to the oak, and Legless pulled it up and gave it to Armless.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Armless	Armless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kicked	kick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Legless	legless	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	Legless	Legless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Armless	Armless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kick** | past | Armless |  |  |  | then | up the oak; legless *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **pull up** | past | Legless | oak |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | Armless *not said here* | oak | Armless |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to armless=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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