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title: Then the serpent crossed over to her side, and they walked to the hu… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the serpent crossed over to her side, and they walked to the hut together and consulted as to the best way of destroying her brother and removing him from God's fair world. Who acts: serpent, waters, best way. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 2,
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 61

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Then the serpent crossed over to her side, and they walked to the hut together and consulted as to the best way of destroying her brother and removing him from God's fair world.

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**Who acts:** serpent, waters, best way · **What happens:** cross over, walk, consult, destroy, remove · **To what, where:** side, hut, brother, serpent, fair world

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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, waters, best way), 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:pg29672:5:61
# text = Then the serpent crossed over to her side, and they walked to the hut together and consulted as to the best way of destroying her brother and removing him from God's fair world.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	consulted	consult	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	destroying	destroy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	removing	remove	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	conj	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross over** | past | the serpent |  |  | sister's side | then | over *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to side=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **walk** | past | waters *= water* |  |  | the hut |  | together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hut=Destination |
| 3 | **consult** | participle | waters *= water* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the best way | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent as way=Value |
| 4 | **destroy** | gerund | the best way *not said here* | sister's brother |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient |
| 5 | **remove** | gerund | the best way *not said here* | serpent |  | God's fair world |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme from world=Source |

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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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