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title: Nedviga lay at his head, and Protius at his feet, and _Vovchok_[10]… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Nedviga lay at his head, and Protius at his feet, and _Vovchok_[10] by his side. Who acts: Nedviga. 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 86

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Nedviga lay at his head, and Protius at his feet, and \_Vovchok\_\[10\] by his side.

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**Who acts:** Nedviga · **What happens:** lie · **To what, where:** Protius, head

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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 (Nedviga), 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:pg29672:5:86
# text = Nedviga lay at his head, and Protius at his feet, and _Vovchok_[10] by his side.
1	Nedviga	Nedviga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Protius	Protius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Vovchok	Vovchok	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | Nedviga | Protius |  | brother's head |  | at brother's feet; by brother's side; 10 *obl* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at head=Location |

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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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