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title: She asked the same thing over and over again, but, getting no answer… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She asked the same thing over and over again, but, getting no answer, went into the tents where stood the flasks and the bottles. Who acts: NASTASIA. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 177

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She asked the same thing over and over again, but, getting no answer, went into the tents where stood the flasks and the bottles.

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**Who acts:** NASTASIA · **What happens:** ask, get, go, stand · **To what, where:** same thing, answer, tents, flasks

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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 (NASTASIA), 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:pg29672:8:177
# text = She asked the same thing over and over again, but, getting no answer, went into the tents where stood the flasks and the bottles.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tents	tent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
22	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	flasks	flask	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | NASTASIA | the same thing |  |  |  | over *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient |
| 2 | **get** | gerund | NASTASIA *not said here* | no answer |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** | past |  |  |  | the tents |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into tent=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **stand** | past |  | the flasks and the bottles |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flask=Stimulus |

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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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