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title: He rose high above the woods and flew after them--oh! how fast he di… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He rose high above the woods and flew after them--oh! how fast he did fly! Who acts: serpent. 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 23

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He rose high above the woods and flew after them--oh! how fast he did fly!

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**Who acts:** serpent · **What happens:** rise, fly · **To what, where:** woods

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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 (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:pg29672:5:23
# text = He rose high above the woods and flew after them--oh! how fast he did fly!
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	above	above	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | serpent |  |  | the woods |  | high *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above wood=Location |
| 2 | **fly** | past | serpent *not said here* |  |  |  | after woods *= wood* |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** | past · do-support | serpent |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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