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title: He did all the carrying himself, and loaded the wagon so heavily tha… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He did all the carrying himself, and loaded the wagon so heavily that it creaked beneath its burden. Who acts: Serpent, wagon. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Serpent-wife, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 16

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He did all the carrying himself, and loaded the wagon so heavily that it creaked beneath its burden.

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**Who acts:** Serpent, wagon · **What happens:** do, carry, load, creak, burden · **To what, where:** Serpent, wagon, burden

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Serpent-wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Serpent, wagon), 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:pg29672:9:16
# text = He did all the carrying himself, and loaded the wagon so heavily that it creaked beneath its burden.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	loaded	load	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wagon	wagon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	creaked	creak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
17	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Serpent |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **carry** | gerund | Serpent *not said here* | Serpent |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 3 | **load** | past | Serpent *not said here* | the wagon |  |  |  | heavily *property* | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wagon=Theme |
| 4 | **creak** | past | wagon |  |  | wagon's burden |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath burden=Location |
| 5 | **burden** |  | wagon |  |  |  |  |  | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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