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title: So the hare ran to fetch this water and this apple, and he ran and r… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the hare ran to fetch this water and this apple, and he ran and ran till he came to a certain land, and in this land the hare saw a spring, and close to the spring grew an apple-tree with the apples of youth, and this spring and this apple-tree were guarded by a Muscovite, oh! so strong, so stron
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 82

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So the hare ran to fetch this water and this apple, and he ran and ran till he came to a certain land, and in this land the hare saw a spring, and close to the spring grew an apple-tree with the apples of youth, and this spring and this apple-tree were guarded by a Muscovite, oh! so strong, so strong, and he waved his sabre again and again so that not even a mouse could make its way up to that well.

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**Who acts:** hare, spring, Muscovite, mouse · **What happens:** run, fetch, come, see, grow, guard · **To what, where:** water, certain land, land, apple tree, spring, sabre

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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 (hare, spring, Muscovite, mouse), 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:pg29672:6:82
# text = So the hare ran to fetch this water and this apple, and he ran and ran till he came to a certain land, and in this land the hare saw a spring, and close to the spring grew an apple-tree with the apples of youth, and this spring and this apple-tree were guarded by a Muscovite, oh! so strong, so strong, and he waved his sabre again and again so that not even a mouse could make its way up to that well.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
38	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
42	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
43	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
53	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	54	det	_	_
54	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nsubj:pass	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
56	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	59	det	_	_
57	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	conj	_	_
60	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	61	aux:pass	_	_
61	guarded	guard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
62	by	by	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	Muscovite	Muscovite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
66	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	64	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	69	punct	_	_
68	so	so	ADV	RB	_	69	advmod	_	_
69	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	72	punct	_	_
71	so	so	ADV	RB	_	72	advmod	_	_
72	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	69	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	76	punct	_	_
74	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	76	cc	_	_
75	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	76	nsubj	_	_
76	waved	wave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
77	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	78	nmod:poss	_	_
78	sabre	sabre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	76	obj	_	_
79	again	again	ADV	RB	_	76	advmod	_	_
80	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	81	cc	_	_
81	again	again	ADV	RB	_	79	conj	_	_
82	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	89	mark	_	_
83	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	89	mark	_	_
84	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	85	advmod	_	_
85	even	even	ADV	RB	_	87	advmod	_	_
86	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	87	det	_	_
87	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	89	nsubj	_	_
88	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	89	aux	_	_
89	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	76	advcl	_	_
90	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	91	nmod:poss	_	_
91	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	89	obj	_	_
92	up	up	ADV	RB	_	89	advmod	_	_
93	to	to	ADP	IN	_	94	case	_	_
94	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	92	obl	_	_
95	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	92	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
96	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the hare |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | the hare *not said here* | this water and this apple |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 3 | **run** | past | hare |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | past | hare *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **come** | past | hare |  |  | a certain land |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **see** | past | the hare |  |  | this land | spring |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **grow** | past | the spring | a apple tree |  |  |  | with the apples of youth | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tree=Patient with apple=Instrument |
| 8 | **guard** | past · passive | a Muscovite | this spring and this apple tree |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary |
| 9 | **wave** | past | hare | hare's sabre |  |  | again |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sabre=Patient |
| 10 | **make** | could | a mouse | water's way |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Product |

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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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