--- title: The Muscovite stood there and opened his eyes wide, but the hare had… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The Muscovite stood there and opened his eyes wide, but the hare had now got up to the spring, and took a little flask of the water and nipped off a little apple, and was off in a trice. Who acts: Muscovite, hare. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Muscovite, hare), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29672:6:88 # text = The Muscovite stood there and opened his eyes wide, but the hare had now got up to the spring, and took a little flask of the water and nipped off a little apple, and was off in a trice. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Muscovite Muscovite PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 hare hare NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 16 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 flask flask NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 nipped nip VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 32 off off ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 39 off off ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 trice trice NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | the Muscovite | | | there | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **open** | past | the Muscovite *not said here* | Muscovite's eyes | | | | wide *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | | 3 | **get up** | past · perfect | the hare | | | | now; spring | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **take** | past | | a little flask of the water | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flask=Theme | | 5 | **nip off** | participle | | a little apple | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location apple=Theme | | 6 | **be off** | past | | | | a trice | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in trice=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/6/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/6/89/) - ↑ back to [The Voices At the Window, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/6/)