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description: So all the people immediately sent and told the Tsar, "A stranger has come hither who says he is ready to meet and slay the dragon." Who acts: people, stranger, Tsar. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 59

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So all the people immediately sent and told the Tsar, "A stranger has come hither who says he is ready to meet and slay the dragon."

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**Who acts:** people, stranger, Tsar · **What happens:** send, tell, come, say, be, meet · **To what, where:** Tsar, dragon · **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 (people, stranger, Tsar), 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:pg29672:6:59
# text = So all the people immediately sent and told the Tsar, "A stranger has come hither who says he is ready to meet and slay the dragon."
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
17	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	ccomp	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | all people |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | all people *not said here* |  | the Tsar |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent tsar=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present · perfect | a stranger |  |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Tsar |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **meet** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Tsar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **slay** *in a quote* | infinitive | Tsar *not said here* | the dragon |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient |

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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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