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title: So he went home, and they saw him coming from afar, and lo! now he h… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he went home, and they saw him coming from afar, and lo! now he had six guardians, and yet had come by no harm. "' Who acts: horse, pieces. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 2, 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 2, sentence 130

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So he went home, and they saw him coming from afar, and lo! now he had six guardians, and yet had come by no harm. "'

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**Who acts:** horse, pieces · **What happens:** go, see, come, have · **To what, where:** horse, afar, six guardians

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, pieces), 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:pg29672:5:130
# text = So he went home, and they saw him coming from afar, and lo! now he had six guardians, and yet had come by no harm. "'
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	guardians	guardian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	aux	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | horse |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | pieces *= piece* | horse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | gerund | horse *not said here* |  |  | afar |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from afar=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **have** | past | horse | six guardians |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guardian=Patient |
| 5 | **come** | participle · perfect |  |  |  |  | yet | by no harm | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by harm=Location |

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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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