--- title: So the Cossack stood in front just to have a little rest, lay down i… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So the Cossack stood in front just to have a little rest, lay down in front of the hayrick and smoked his pipe, went on smoking, smoking, and never saw that a spark had fallen into the hay. Who acts: Cossack, spark. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34, with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/34/51/) [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/) / [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/34/) / 51 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 51 So the Cossack stood in front just to have a little rest, lay down in front of the hayrick and smoked his pipe, went on smoking, smoking, and never saw that a spark had fallen into the hay. **Who acts:** Cossack, spark · **What happens:** stand, have, lay down, smoke, go, not see · **To what, where:** front, little rest, pipe, smoking, hay · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cossack, spark), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:34:51 # text = So the Cossack stood in front just to have a little rest, lay down in front of the hayrick and smoked his pipe, went on smoking, smoking, and never saw that a spark had fallen into the hay. 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Cossack cossack NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 just just ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 15 down down ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 hayrick hayrick NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 smoked smoke VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 pipe pipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 smoking smoking NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 smoking smoking NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 spark spark NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 38 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 34 ccomp _ _ 40 into into ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 hay hay NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | the Cossack | | | front | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location | | 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | the Cossack *not said here* | a little rest | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient | | 3 | **lay down** | infinitive | the Cossack *not said here* | | | front of the hayrick | | down *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in front=Destination | | 4 | **smoke** | past | the Cossack *not said here* | Cossack's pipe | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source | | 5 | **go** | past | the Cossack *not said here* | | | smoking and smoking | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on smoking=Location | | 6 | **not** **see** | past | the Cossack *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **fall** | past · perfect | a spark | | | | | into the hay *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hay=Result | 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:** «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. 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