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title: But they seized the sister and tied her to the tail of a savage hors… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But they seized the sister and tied her to the tail of a savage horse and let her loose upon the endless steppe. Who acts: branches, harm. 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 26

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But they seized the sister and tied her to the tail of a savage horse and let her loose upon the endless steppe.

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**Who acts:** branches, harm · **What happens:** seize, tie, let, lose · **To what, where:** sister, harm

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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 (branches, harm), 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:pg29672:7:26
# text = But they seized the sister and tied her to the tail of a savage horse and let her loose upon the endless steppe.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	loose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	endless	endless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	steppe	steppe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | branches *= branch* |  | the sister |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme |
| 2 | **tie** | past | branches *= branch* *not said here* | harm |  |  |  | to the tail of a savage horse | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient to tail=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | branches *= branch* *not said here* | harm |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lose** | infinitive | harm *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the endless steppe | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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