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title: Now the serpent and the false sister saw him coming from afar, and t… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the serpent and the false sister saw him coming from afar, and three dogs trotting behind him. Who acts: serpent, Tsar, three dogs. 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 74

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Now the serpent and the false sister saw him coming from afar, and three dogs trotting behind him.

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**Who acts:** serpent, Tsar, three dogs · **What happens:** see, come, trot · **To what, where:** Tsar, afar

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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, Tsar, three dogs), 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:pg29672:5:74
# text = Now the serpent and the false sister saw him coming from afar, and three dogs trotting behind him.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
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	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	trotting	trot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
18	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the serpent and the false sister | Tsar |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | Tsar *not said here* |  |  | afar |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from afar=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **trot** | gerund | three dogs |  |  |  |  | behind Tsar | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Trajectory |

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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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