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title: Then he cried again, "Little ram, little ram, scatter money!"--But t… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he cried again, "Little ram, little ram, scatter money!"--But the ram stood there stock-still and did nothing. Who acts: husband, ram, there. 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 109

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Then he cried again, "Little ram, little ram, scatter money!"--But the ram stood there stock-still and did nothing.

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**Who acts:** husband, ram, there · **What happens:** cry, stand, do, stock · **To what, where:** Little ram, stock, nothing

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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 (husband, ram, there), 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:pg29672:3:109
# text = Then he cried again, "Little ram, little ram, scatter money!"--But the ram stood there stock-still and did nothing.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	ram	ram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ram	ram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	scatter	scat	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ram	ram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	there	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Typo=Yes	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | husband | Little ram and little ram |  |  | then; again |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the ram | there's stock |  |  | still |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stock=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | past | the ram *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
| 4 | **stock** |  | there *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | nom stock «possession transitive»: poss=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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