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title: At that same instant his dogs and his beasts, growling loudly, came… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At that same instant his dogs and his beasts, growling loudly, came running up, and stood in a circle around him. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3, 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 3, sentence 38

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At that same instant his dogs and his beasts, growling loudly, came running up, and stood in a circle around him.

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**What happens:** growl, come, run up, stand · **To what, where:** circle

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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: 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:pg29672:6:38
# text = At that same instant his dogs and his beasts, growling loudly, came running up, and stood in a circle around him.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	instant	instant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	growling	growl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
12	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	around	around	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **growl** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  |  | at Tsar's same instant dogs and Tsar's beasts | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at dog=Location |
| 3 | **run up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | past |  |  |  | a circle |  | around Tsar | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in circle=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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