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title: And when they had thought it well over they judged that the hare was… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when they had thought it well over they judged that the hare was the swiftest, and they resolved that the hare should run and get living and healing water and the apple of youth also. Who acts: buckets, hare. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3, w
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 81

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And when they had thought it well over they judged that the hare was the swiftest, and they resolved that the hare should run and get living and healing water and the apple of youth also.

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**Who acts:** buckets, hare · **What happens:** think, judge, be, resolve, run, get · **To what, where:** buckets, water · **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 (buckets, hare), 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:pg29672:6:81
# text = And when they had thought it well over they judged that the hare was the swiftest, and they resolved that the hare should run and get living and healing water and the apple of youth also.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
8	over	over	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	judged	judge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	swiftest	swift	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
28	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	healing	heal	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	conj	_	_
31	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	also	also	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive |  | buckets *= bucket* |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **judge** | past | buckets *= bucket* |  |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the hare |  |  |  |  | swift *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **resolve** | past | buckets *= bucket* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **run** | should | the hare |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **get** | infinitive | the hare *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **live** | gerund | the hare *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **heal** | gerund | the hare *not said here* | water and the apple of youth |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=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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