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title: The Devil did so, and began digging at the spot where the gimlet fel… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Devil did so, and began digging at the spot where the gimlet fell out on the marshy ground till he had dug out the children. Who acts: Devil, gimlet. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 101

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The Devil did so, and began digging at the spot where the gimlet fell out on the marshy ground till he had dug out the children.

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**Who acts:** Devil, gimlet · **What happens:** do, begin, dig, fall out, dig out · **To what, where:** marshy ground, children

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Devil, gimlet), 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:pg29672:4:101
# text = The Devil did so, and began digging at the spot where the gimlet fell out on the marshy ground till he had dug out the children.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Devil	Devil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	digging	dig	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	gimlet	gimlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	marshy	marshy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	dug	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | the Devil |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the Devil *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **dig** | gerund | the Devil *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the spot | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at spot=Theme |
| 4 | **fall out** | past | the gimlet |  |  | the marshy ground |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location |
| 5 | **dig out** | past · perfect | Devil | the children |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent child=Instrument |

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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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