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title: So he turned himself into a needle again, and she fastened him in th… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he turned himself into a needle again, and she fastened him in the wall, only a little higher up, so that the dogs should not get at him. Who acts: four, Nedviga, dogs. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 97

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So he turned himself into a needle again, and she fastened him in the wall, only a little higher up, so that the dogs should not get at him.

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**Who acts:** four, Nedviga, dogs · **What happens:** turn, fasten, not get · **To what, where:** four, needle, wall

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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 (four, Nedviga, 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:pg29672:5:97
# text = So he turned himself into a needle again, and she fastened him in the wall, only a little higher up, so that the dogs should not get at him.
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	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
22	up	up	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
28	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **turn** | past | four | four |  | a needle |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into needle=Trajectory |
| 2 | **fasten** | past | Nedviga | four |  | the wall |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **get** | should | the dogs |  |  |  |  | at four | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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