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title: But the Tsarevich had a jester who was always with him, and used alw… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Tsarevich had a jester who was always with him, and used always to jest and cut capers whenever this child of the Tsar was sad. Who acts: Tsarevich, jester, child. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 68

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But the Tsarevich had a jester who was always with him, and used always to jest and cut capers whenever this child of the Tsar was sad.

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**Who acts:** Tsarevich, jester, child · **What happens:** have, be, use, jest, cut · **To what, where:** jester, capers

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarevich, jester, child), 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:pg29672:15:68
# text = But the Tsarevich had a jester who was always with him, and used always to jest and cut capers whenever this child of the Tsar was sad.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Tsarevich	Tsarevich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	jester	jester	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	jest	jest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
20	capers	caper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Tsarevich | a jester |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jester=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | a jester |  |  |  |  | with heart; always *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | past | the Tsarevich *not said here* |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **jest** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the Tsarevich *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **cut** | infinitive | the Tsarevich *not said here* | capers |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset caper=Product |
| 6 | **is** | past | this child of the Tsar |  |  |  |  | sad, whenever *property* | tree rules |

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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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