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title: For they had just slain a bullock, and on the ground where they had… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For they had just slain a bullock, and on the ground where they had slain it there sprang up a whitethorn-tree, so lovely that it may be told of in tales, but neither imagined nor divined. Who acts: boar. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3, with its 
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 10

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For they had just slain a bullock, and on the ground where they had slain it there sprang up a whitethorn-tree, so lovely that it may be told of in tales, but neither imagined nor divined.

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**Who acts:** boar · **What happens:** slay, spring up, tell, imagine, divine · **To what, where:** bullock, ground, whitethorn tree, tree · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boar), 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:pg29672:6:10
# text = For they had just slain a bullock, and on the ground where they had slain it there sprang up a whitethorn-tree, so lovely that it may be told of in tales, but neither imagined nor divined.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bullock	bullock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
19	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	whitethorn	whitethorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	parataxis	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	parataxis	_	_
40	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	41	cc	_	_
41	divined	divine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slay** | past · perfect | boar | a bullock |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bullock=Patient |
| 2 | **slay** | past · perfect | boar | bullock |  | the ground; there |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **spring up** | past |  | a whitethorn tree |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | may · passive |  | tree |  |  |  | of tales | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **imagine** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 6 | **divine** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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