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title: Then they fell to weeping and entreating, "We'll listen to you alone… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they fell to weeping and entreating, "We'll listen to you alone and to nobody else!" and they wept and entreated so much that at last he forgave them. Who acts: friends, We, serpent. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 2, with its dependency tree a
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 16

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Then they fell to weeping and entreating, "We'll listen to you alone and to nobody else!" and they wept and entreated so much that at last he forgave them.

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**Who acts:** friends, We, serpent · **What happens:** fall, entreat, listen, weep, forgive · **To what, where:** you, much, friends, last

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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 (friends, We, serpent), 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:pg29672:5:16
# text = Then they fell to weeping and entreating, "We'll listen to you alone and to nobody else!" and they wept and entreated so much that at last he forgave them.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	weeping	weeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	entreating	entreat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	conj	_	_
19	else	else	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	entreated	entreat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obj	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	forgave	forgive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | friends *= friend* |  |  |  | then | to weeping | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to weeping=Theme |
| 2 | **entreat** | gerund | friends *= friend* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **listen** *in a quote* | future | We |  | you |  |  | alone *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to you=Theme |
| 4 | **weep** | past | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **entreat** | past | friends *= friend* *not said here* | much |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Recipient |
| 6 | **forgive** | past | serpent | friends *= friend* |  | last |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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