--- title: All through the church they rolled, she after them, and she tried to… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: All through the church they rolled, she after them, and she tried to pick them up till cockcrow, and at the very first "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" she got into her bier again and lay still. Who acts: pears, shaking, Cock, first. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/71/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / [The Vampire and St Michael](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/) / 71 # Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 71 All through the church they rolled, she after them, and she tried to pick them up till cockcrow, and at the very first "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" she got into her bier again and lay still. **Who acts:** pears, shaking, Cock, first · **What happens:** roll, try, pick up, doo, get, lay · **To what, where:** church, pears, bier 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 (pears, shaking, Cock, first), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29672:8:71 # text = All through the church they rolled, she after them, and she tried to pick them up till cockcrow, and at the very first "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" she got into her bier again and lay still. 1 All all ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 through through ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 rolled roll VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 after after ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 19 till till ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 cockcrow cockcrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 very very ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 38 nsubj _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 Cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 doodle doodle NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 doo doo NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ! ! PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 37 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 39 into into ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 bier bier NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 again again ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 conj _ _ 45 still still ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **roll** | past | pears *= pear* | | | the church | after boards *= board* | all *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through church=Trajectory | | 2 | **try** | past | shaking | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **pick up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | shaking *not said here* | pears *= pear* | | | till cockcrow | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | | 4 | **doo** *in a quote* | | Cock | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **get** | past | the first | | | shaking's bier | again | | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into bier=Destination | | 6 | **lay** | infinitive | the first *not said here* | | | | still | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/72/) - ↑ back to [The Vampire and St Michael](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/)