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title: The princess and the serpents grinned and looked on, but Ivan Golik… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The princess and the serpents grinned and looked on, but Ivan Golik flicked his heroic whip, and struck the pig one blow that made it fly to pieces. Who acts: princess, Ivan, one blow, blow. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, with its dependenc
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 93

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The princess and the serpents grinned and looked on, but Ivan Golik flicked his heroic whip, and struck the pig one blow that made it fly to pieces.

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**Who acts:** princess, Ivan, one blow, blow · **What happens:** grin, look on, flick, strike, make, fly · **To what, where:** heroic whip, pig, blow

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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, Ivan, one blow, blow), 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:pg29672:27:93
# text = The princess and the serpents grinned and looked on, but Ivan Golik flicked his heroic whip, and struck the pig one blow that made it fly to pieces.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	grinned	grin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	Golik	Golik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	flicked	flick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	heroic	heroic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	whip	whip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grin** | past | the princess and the serpents |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look on** | past | the princess and the serpents *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **flick** | past | Ivan | Ivan's heroic whip |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whip=Theme |
| 4 | **strike** | past | the princess and the serpents *not said here* | the pig |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent pig=Patient blow=Result |
| 5 | **make** | past | one blow | blow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **fly** | infinitive | blow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to pieces *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to piece=Result |

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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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