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description: Then he came down, and they both fell on their knees and began praying to God, and wept sore and gave thanks to God because He had had mercy on them both. Who acts: _, eyes. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 116

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Then he came down, and they both fell on their knees and began praying to God, and wept sore and gave thanks to God because He had had mercy on them both.

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**Who acts:** \_, eyes · **What happens:** come down, fall, begin, pray, weep, give · **To what, where:** knees, God, thanks, mercy

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (\_, eyes), 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:pg29672:8:116
# text = Then he came down, and they both fell on their knees and began praying to God, and wept sore and gave thanks to God because He had had mercy on them both.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
9	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	praying	pray	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
24	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
31	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
34	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | past | \_ |  |  |  | then | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | past | eyes *= eye* |  |  | eyes's knees |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location |
| 3 | **begin** | past | eyes *= eye* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **pray** | gerund | eyes *= eye* *not said here* |  | God |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **weep** | past | \_ *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sore *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **give** | past | \_ *not said here* | thanks | God |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme to god=Recipient |
| 7 | **have** | past · perfect | \_ | mercy |  |  |  | on eyes *= eye* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mercy=Patient |

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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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