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title: But meanwhile Ivan out with his knife, and putting it through the ho… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But meanwhile Ivan out with his knife, and putting it through the hole, cut a round piece off the monk's robe. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Tale of Ivan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 42

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But meanwhile Ivan out with his knife, and putting it through the hole, cut a round piece off the monk's robe.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** put, cut · **To what, where:** knife, hole, Ivan

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Tale of Ivan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg7885:26:42
# text = But meanwhile Ivan out with his knife, and putting it through the hole, cut a round piece off the monk's robe.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
16	cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	off	off	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | gerund | you *not said here* | knife |  | the hole |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme through hole=Destination |
| 2 | **cut** | imperative | you *not said here* | Ivan with hole's knife |  |  |  | off the monk's robe | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent piece=Patient off robe=Co-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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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