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title: His heart grew heavy within him as he thought of all this, and he we… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: His heart grew heavy within him as he thought of all this, and he wept bitterly at the harm he had done to himself. Who acts: heart, Serpent. 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 39

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His heart grew heavy within him as he thought of all this, and he wept bitterly at the harm he had done to himself.

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**Who acts:** heart, Serpent · **What happens:** grow, think, weep, do · **To what, where:** harm, Serpent

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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 (heart, Serpent), 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:pg29672:9:39
# text = His heart grew heavy within him as he thought of all this, and he wept bitterly at the harm he had done to himself.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	within	within	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	ccomp	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Serpent's heart |  |  |  |  | within Serpent; heavy *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Serpent |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **weep** | past | Serpent |  |  | the harm |  | bitterly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** | past · perfect | Serpent | the harm *not said here* | Serpent |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality |

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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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