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title: And when they came to the sea the horse said, "Now lay upon me the h… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when they came to the sea the horse said, "Now lay upon me the hides and the tar and the flax, and lay them in this order--first a hide, and then a pood of tar, and then a pood of flax, and so on, laying them thus till they are all laid." Who acts: TREMSIN, horse. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Ta
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 197

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And when they came to the sea the horse said, "Now lay upon me the hides and the tar and the flax, and lay them in this order--first a hide, and then a pood of tar, and then a pood of flax, and so on, laying them thus till they are all laid."

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**Who acts:** TREMSIN, horse · **What happens:** come, say, lie, lay · **To what, where:** sea, hides, TREMSIN, order · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (TREMSIN, horse), 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:pg29672:8:197
# text = And when they came to the sea the horse said, "Now lay upon me the hides and the tar and the flax, and lay them in this order--first a hide, and then a pood of tar, and then a pood of flax, and so on, laying them thus till they are all laid."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hides	hide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	tar	tar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	35	advmod	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	40	advmod	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	pood	pood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	tar	tar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	47	advmod	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	pood	pood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	so	so	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	on	on	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
55	laying	lay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
56	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	_
57	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
58	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	62	mark	_	_
59	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
60	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	62	aux:pass	_	_
61	all	all	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
62	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	55	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | TREMSIN |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **lie** *in a quote* | past |  | the hides and the tar and the flax |  |  | now | upon the horse *= horse* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hide=Theme |
| 4 | **lay** *in a quote* | infinitive | the horse *not said here* | TREMSIN |  | this order |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in order=Destination |
| 5 | **lay** *in a quote* | gerund | the horse *not said here* | TREMSIN |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result |
| 6 | **lay** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | TREMSIN |  |  |  | all *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |

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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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