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title: Thereupon the serpent's tooth flew out of the hare and fastened itse… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thereupon the serpent's tooth flew out of the hare and fastened itself in the upper branch, and both fox and hare scampered back out of the forest alive and well. Who acts: tooth, fox. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 4, with its dependency tree and 
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 4, sentence 24

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Thereupon the serpent's tooth flew out of the hare and fastened itself in the upper branch, and both fox and hare scampered back out of the forest alive and well.

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**Who acts:** tooth, fox · **What happens:** fly out, fasten, scamper back · **To what, where:** hare, tooth, upper branch, forest

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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 (tooth, fox), 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:pg29672:7:24
# text = Thereupon the serpent's tooth flew out of the hare and fastened itself in the upper branch, and both fox and hare scampered back out of the forest alive and well.
1	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	scampered	scamper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly out** | past | the serpent's tooth | the hare |  |  |  | thereupon *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hare=Theme |
| 2 | **fasten** | past | the serpent's tooth *not said here* | tooth |  | the upper branch |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient |
| 3 | **scamper back** | participle | both fox and hare |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out forest=Trajectory |

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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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