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title: He was so very thirsty that he flung himself down headlong by this s… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He was so very thirsty that he flung himself down headlong by this spring without first crossing himself, wherefore that Accursed One, Satan, immediately had power over him, and caught him by the beard. Who acts: TSAR. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, par
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 59

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He was so very thirsty that he flung himself down headlong by this spring without first crossing himself, wherefore that Accursed One, Satan, immediately had power over him, and caught him by the beard.

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**Who acts:** TSAR · **What happens:** be, fling down, cross, accurs, have, catch · **To what, where:** TSAR, that, power

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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 (TSAR), 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:pg29672:4:59
# text = He was so very thirsty that he flung himself down headlong by this spring without first crossing himself, wherefore that Accursed One, Satan, immediately had power over him, and caught him by the beard.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
11	headlong	headlong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	advmod	_	_
17	crossing	cross	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	Accursed	accurs	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
23	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Satan	Satan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
29	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	over	over	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | TSAR |  |  |  |  | thirsty *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fling down** | past | TSAR | TSAR |  |  | spring | headlong *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 3 | **cross** | gerund | TSAR *not said here* | TSAR |  |  |  | first *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 4 | **accurs** | participle · passive |  | that |  |  |  | Satan *obl*; wherefore *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past |  | power |  |  |  | over TSAR; immediately *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 6 | **catch** | past |  | TSAR |  |  |  | by the beard | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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