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title: Then the crab called together all her young crabs, and they collecte… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the crab called together all her young crabs, and they collected all the coral and brought it ashore, and gave it to Tremsin. Who acts: crab. 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 191

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Then the crab called together all her young crabs, and they collected all the coral and brought it ashore, and gave it to Tremsin.

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**Who acts:** crab · **What happens:** call together, collect, bring, give · **To what, where:** young crabs, coral, Tremsin

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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 (crab), 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:pg29672:8:191
# text = Then the crab called together all her young crabs, and they collected all the coral and brought it ashore, and gave it to Tremsin.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	crabs	crab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	collected	collect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	coral	coral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	ashore	ashore	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Tremsin	Tremsin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call together** *speech: assert* | participle | the crab *not said here* | NASTASIA's young crabs |  |  |  | together *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **collect** | past | the crab | all coral |  |  | then |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coral=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | past | the crab *not said here* | coral |  |  |  | ashore *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | past | the crab *not said here* | coral | Tremsin |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to tremsin=Recipient |

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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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