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title: So he slept through the night, and at dawn he arose and mounted his… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he slept through the night, and at dawn he arose and mounted his good steed and hied him thence. Who acts: brother. 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 87

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So he slept through the night, and at dawn he arose and mounted his good steed and hied him thence.

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**Who acts:** brother · **What happens:** sleep, arise, mount, hie · **To what, where:** good steed, brother

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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 (brother), 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:pg29672:5:87
# text = So he slept through the night, and at dawn he arose and mounted his good steed and hied him thence.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	hied	hie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | past | brother |  |  |  | night |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **arise** | past | brother |  |  |  | dawn |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **mount** | past | brother *not said here* | brother's good steed |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient |
| 4 | **hie** | past | brother *not said here* | brother |  |  |  | thence *property* | tree rules |

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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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