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title: So he did so, and the faggots blazed up, but when she had gone away… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he did so, and the faggots blazed up, but when she had gone away he sprinkled them with water again, so that they might burn more slowly. Who acts: Tsar, faggots, sister. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 22

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So he did so, and the faggots blazed up, but when she had gone away he sprinkled them with water again, so that they might burn more slowly.

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**Who acts:** Tsar, faggots, sister · **What happens:** do, blaze up, go away, sprinkle, burn · **To what, where:** faggots

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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 (Tsar, faggots, sister), 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:pg29672:6:22
# text = So he did so, and the faggots blazed up, but when she had gone away he sprinkled them with water again, so that they might burn more slowly.
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	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	faggots	faggot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	blazed	blaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	29	mark	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
30	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	_
31	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Tsar |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **blaze up** | past | the faggots |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go away** | past · perfect | sister |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sprinkle** | past | Tsar | faggots *= faggot* |  |  | again | with water | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with water=Theme |
| 5 | **burn** | might | faggots *= faggot* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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