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title: He went on farther and farther till he saw before him a forest, and… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He went on farther and farther till he saw before him a forest, and on the borders of that forest stood a hut on hens' legs. Who acts: man, borders. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 10

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He went on farther and farther till he saw before him a forest, and on the borders of that forest stood a hut on hens' legs.

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**Who acts:** man, borders · **What happens:** go, see, stand · **To what, where:** forest, hut, legs

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, borders), 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:pg29672:3:10
# text = He went on farther and farther till he saw before him a forest, and on the borders of that forest stood a hut on hens' legs.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
7	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
10	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	hens	hen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | man |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | man | a forest |  |  | before husband |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer forest=Stimulus |
| 3 | **stand** | past | the borders of that forest | a hut |  | hens's legs |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hut=Theme on leg=Destination |

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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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