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description: There lived in a certain land an old man of this kind who instructed his three sons in reading and writing[332] and all book learning. Who acts: kind, book. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, with its dependency tree and th
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 24

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There lived in a certain land an old man of this kind who instructed his three sons in reading and writing\[332\] and all book learning.

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**Who acts:** kind, book · **What happens:** live, instruct, learn · **To what, where:** old man, certain land, three sons, reading

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind, book), 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:pg22373:45:24
# text = There lived in a certain land an old man of this kind who instructed his three sons in reading and writing[332] and all book learning.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	instructed	instruct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	332	332	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
28	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  | a old man of this kind |  | a certain land; there |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location |
| 2 | **instruct** *speech: other* | past | this kind |  | man's three sons | reading and writing and all book |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient |
| 3 | **learn** | gerund | all book *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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