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title: I went straight from my wife into the field and reaped my little plo… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I went straight from my wife into the field and reaped my little plot of corn; but when I began to thresh it out, the Wind came and caught and scattered every bit of it in a twinkling, so that there was not a single little grain of it left. Who acts: I, Wind, single little grain, my. A sentence of «
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 20

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I went straight from my wife into the field and reaped my little plot of corn; but when I began to thresh it out, the Wind came and caught and scattered every bit of it in a twinkling, so that there was not a single little grain of it left.

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**Who acts:** I, Wind, single little grain, my · **What happens:** go, reap, begin, thresh out, come, catch · **To what, where:** field, little plot, plot, bit, twinkling, corn

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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 (I, Wind, single little grain, my), 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:pg29672:3:20
# text = I went straight from my wife into the field and reaped my little plot of corn; but when I began to thresh it out, the Wind came and caught and scattered every bit of it in a twinkling, so that there was not a single little grain of it left.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	reaped	reap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	plot	plot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	thresh	thresh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
34	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nmod	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
42	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	45	expl	_	_
45	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	advcl	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
48	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
49	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nmod	_	_
53	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	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 | I |  |  | the field |  | from my wife | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from wife=Initial\_Location into field=Destination |
| 2 | **reap** | past | I *not said here* | my little plot of corn |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plot=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **thresh out** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | plot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | past | the Wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **catch** | past | the Wind *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **scatter** | past | the Wind *not said here* | every bit of Wind |  | a twinkling |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bit=Theme in twinkling=Destination |
| 8 | **be** | past | a single little grain of Wind *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **leave** | past | a single little grain of Wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **plot** |  | my | corn |  |  |  |  | nom plot «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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