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title: Then the self-slicing sword cut him into little bits, and his beasts… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the self-slicing sword cut him into little bits, and his beasts knew nothing about it, for they were sleeping after their labours. Who acts: slicing sword, beasts. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 75

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Then the self-slicing sword cut him into little bits, and his beasts knew nothing about it, for they were sleeping after their labours.

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**Who acts:** slicing sword, beasts · **What happens:** slice, cut, know, sleep · **To what, where:** Tsar, little bits, nothing

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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 (slicing sword, beasts), 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:pg29672:6:75
# text = Then the self-slicing sword cut him into little bits, and his beasts knew nothing about it, for they were sleeping after their labours.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	slicing	slice	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	obj	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	parataxis	_	_
25	after	after	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	labours	labour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slice** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **cut** | past | the slicing sword | Tsar |  | little bits | then |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent he=Material into bit=Product |
| 3 | **know** | past | Tsar's beasts | nothing |  |  |  | about side | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 4 | **sleep** | past · progressive | beasts *= beast* |  |  |  | after beasts's labours |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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