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title: Wherever he looked there was everything quite spick and span and rea… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Wherever he looked there was everything quite spick and span and ready for use: none in the whole village had a better house than he. Who acts: Serpent, spick. 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 25

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Wherever he looked there was everything quite spick and span and ready for use: none in the whole village had a better house than he.

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**Who acts:** Serpent, spick · **What happens:** look, be, have · **To what, where:** everything, better house

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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, spick), 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:pg29672:9:25
# text = Wherever he looked there was everything quite spick and span and ready for use: none in the whole village had a better house than he.
1	Wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	obj	_	_
7	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	spick	spick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	span	span	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	21	nsubj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Serpent | everything |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme everything=Attribute |
| 2 | **be** | past | Serpent *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | spick and span | a better house |  |  |  | than Serpent | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient |

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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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