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title: And it was so that when any went to draw water from this well the dr… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And it was so that when any went to draw water from this well the dragon rose up and ate them, and there was no other place whence that city could draw its water. Who acts: dragon, city. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3, with its dependency tree an
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 56

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And it was so that when any went to draw water from this well the dragon rose up and ate them, and there was no other place whence that city could draw its water.

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**Who acts:** dragon, city · **What happens:** go, draw, rise up, eat, be · **To what, where:** water, this, dogs, other place

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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 (dragon, city), 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:pg29672:6:56
# text = And it was so that when any went to draw water from this well the dragon rose up and ate them, and there was no other place whence that city could draw its water.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
4	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	8	mark	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	obl	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
29	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
30	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl:relcl	_	_
34	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **draw** | to-infinitive |  | water |  | this |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from this=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **rise up** | past | the dragon |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **eat** | past | the dragon *not said here* | dogs *= dog* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | no other place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **draw** | could | that city | dragon's water |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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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