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title: The father-in-law wanted to take it away with him, or, at all events… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The father-in-law wanted to take it away with him, or, at all events, that only some one who could outdo him in cunning should get it. Who acts: father, that, one. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, with its dependency tree
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 61

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The father-in-law wanted to take it away with him, or, at all events, that only some one who could outdo him in cunning should get it.

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**Who acts:** father, that, one · **What happens:** want, take away, one, outdo, get · **To what, where:** money, father, events

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, that, one), 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:pg22373:49:61
# text = The father-in-law wanted to take it away with him, or, at all events, that only some one who could outdo him in cunning should get it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	outdo	outdo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | the father in law |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **take away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the father in law *not said here* | money |  |  |  | with father; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **one** |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **outdo** | could | some one | father |  |  |  | in cunning | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot he=Theme in cunning=Attribute |
| 5 | **get** | should | some one | money |  | all events |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at event=Asset |

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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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