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title: Now that the little hare had died there was none to kiss her back in… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now that the little hare had died there was none to kiss her back into life again. " Who acts: little hare, none. 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 20

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Now that the little hare had died there was none to kiss her back into life again. "

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**Who acts:** little hare, none · **What happens:** die, be, kiss back · **To what, where:** hare, life

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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 (little hare, none), 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:pg29672:7:20
# text = Now that the little hare had died there was none to kiss her back into life again. "
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
10	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	9	nsubj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	kiss	kiss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past · perfect | the little hare |  |  |  | now |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **be** | past | none |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **kiss back** | to-infinitive | none *not said here* | hare |  | life | again |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-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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