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title: Then Nedviga kissed Protius and Protius became alive, but Nedviga di… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Nedviga kissed Protius and Protius became alive, but Nedviga died. Who acts: Nedviga, Protius. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 4, sentence 14

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Then Nedviga kissed Protius and Protius became alive, but Nedviga died.

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**Who acts:** Nedviga, Protius · **What happens:** kiss, become, die

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nedviga, Protius), 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:pg29672:7:14
# text = Then Nedviga kissed Protius and Protius became alive, but Nedviga died.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Nedviga	Nedviga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Protius	Protius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Protius	Protius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	Nedviga	Nedviga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kiss** | past | Nedviga |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | past | Protius and Protius |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **die** | past | Nedviga |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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