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title: He caused white tents to be pitched by the sea-shore, and bought ker… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He caused white tents to be pitched by the sea-shore, and bought kerchiefs and scarves and spread them out gaily, and made great store of wine and brandy in bottles and flasks. Who acts: nobleman, sea shore. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael, with its dep
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 171

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He caused white tents to be pitched by the sea-shore, and bought kerchiefs and scarves and spread them out gaily, and made great store of wine and brandy in bottles and flasks.

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**Who acts:** nobleman, sea shore · **What happens:** cause, pitch, buy, spread out, make · **To what, where:** white tents, kerchiefs, tents, great store, bottles

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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 (nobleman, sea shore), 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:pg29672:8:171
# text = He caused white tents to be pitched by the sea-shore, and bought kerchiefs and scarves and spread them out gaily, and made great store of wine and brandy in bottles and flasks.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	tents	tent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	pitched	pitch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	kerchiefs	kerchief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	scarves	scarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
23	gaily	gaily	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	brandy	brandy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	flasks	flask	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past | nobleman | white tents |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition tent=Patient |
| 2 | **pitch** | to-infinitive · passive | the sea shore | white tents *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **buy** | past | nobleman *not said here* | kerchiefs and scarves |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kerchief=Theme |
| 4 | **spread out** | past | nobleman *not said here* | tents *= tent* |  |  |  | gaily *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | past | nobleman *not said here* | great store of wine and brandy |  | bottles and flasks |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset store=Product |

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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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