--- title: Pull it out and throw it behind thee!"--The little Tsar took out the… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Pull it out and throw it behind thee!"--The little Tsar took out the comb and threw it behind him, and it became a huge wood, as thick and jagged as the teeth of a horse-comb. Who acts: you, little Tsar, comb. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, little Tsar, comb), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29672:5:26 # text = Pull it out and throw it behind thee!"--The little Tsar took out the comb and threw it behind him, and it became a huge wood, as thick and jagged as the teeth of a horse-comb. 1 Pull pull VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 out out ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 throw throw VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 behind behind ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 -- -- PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 Tsar Tsar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 16 out out ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 comb comb NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 behind behind ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 as as ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 jagged jagged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 36 as as ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 41 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 comb comb NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull out** | imperative | you *not said here* | comb | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **throw** | infinitive | you *not said here* | comb | | thee | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme behind thou=Destination | | 3 | **take out** *in a quote* | past | the little Tsar | the comb | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comb=Theme | | 4 | **throw** *in a quote* | past | the little Tsar *not said here* | comb | | | | behind Tsar | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme behind he=Destination | | 5 | **become** *in a quote* | past | comb | a huge wood | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/27/) - ↑ back to [The Voices At the Window, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/)