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title: Out of the drum, my twelve henchmen!" cried the Wind, "and just give… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Out of the drum, my twelve henchmen!" cried the Wind, "and just give this accursed drunkard a good lesson that he may keep his throat dry and listen a little more to old people!"--Immediately twelve henchmen leaped out of his drum and began giving the man a sound thrashing. Who acts: twelve henchmen
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 116

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Out of the drum, my twelve henchmen!" cried the Wind, "and just give this accursed drunkard a good lesson that he may keep his throat dry and listen a little more to old people!"--Immediately twelve henchmen leaped out of his drum and began giving the man a sound thrashing.

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**Who acts:** twelve henchmen, man · **What happens:** cry, give, accurs, keep, listen, leap out · **To what, where:** Wind, drum, accursed drunkard, throat, more, sound thrashing

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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 (twelve henchmen, man), 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:pg29672:3:116
# text = Out of the drum, my twelve henchmen!" cried the Wind, "and just give this accursed drunkard a good lesson that he may keep his throat dry and listen a little more to old people!"--Immediately twelve henchmen leaped out of his drum and began giving the man a sound thrashing.
1	Out	out	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	just	just	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	accursed	accurs	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	drunkard	drunkard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	listen	listen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	obl:unmarked	_	_
36	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	obj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	Immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
45	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
46	leaped	leap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
47	out	out	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
53	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	52	xcomp	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
58	thrashing	thrashing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | my twelve henchmen | the Wind |  | the drum |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Topic |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive | my twelve henchmen *not said here* | this accursed drunkard |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent drunkard=Recipient lesson=Theme |
| 3 | **accurs** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** | may | man | man's throat |  |  |  | dry *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throat=Theme |
| 5 | **listen** | present | my twelve henchmen *not said here* | more |  |  |  | to old people | tree rules |
| 6 | **leap out** *in a quote* | past | twelve henchmen | man's drum |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme drum=Trajectory |
| 7 | **begin** *in a quote* | past | twelve henchmen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 8 | **give** *in a quote* | gerund | twelve henchmen *not said here* | a sound thrashing | the man |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient thrashing=Theme |

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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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