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title: When they came from church they had all sorts of things to talk abou… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When they came from church they had all sorts of things to talk about, and how the young Tsarevich had fallen in love with the grand young lady, and how they were unable to tell him whence she came, or who she was, and the stepmother hated the old man's daughter all the more because she had done her
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 73

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When they came from church they had all sorts of things to talk about, and how the young Tsarevich had fallen in love with the grand young lady, and how they were unable to tell him whence she came, or who she was, and the stepmother hated the old man's daughter all the more because she had done her work so nicely.

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**Who acts:** rags, young Tsarevich, Lady, stepmother · **What happens:** come, have, talk about, fall, be, tell · **To what, where:** church, sorts, love, Tsarevich, daughter, work · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (rags, young Tsarevich, Lady, stepmother), 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:pg29672:15:73
# text = When they came from church they had all sorts of things to talk about, and how the young Tsarevich had fallen in love with the grand young lady, and how they were unable to tell him whence she came, or who she was, and the stepmother hated the old man's daughter all the more because she had done her work so nicely.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Tsarevich	Tsarevich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	iobj	_	_
39	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	41	advmod	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	41	parataxis	_	_
45	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
51	hated	hate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	's	's	PART	POS	_	54	case	_	_
56	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
57	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	59	det:predet	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	51	advmod	_	_
60	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	63	mark	_	_
61	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
62	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	63	aux	_	_
63	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	51	advcl	_	_
64	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	65	nmod:poss	_	_
65	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	obj	_	_
66	so	so	ADV	RB	_	67	advmod	_	_
67	nicely	nicely	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | rags *= rag* |  |  | church |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from church=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **have** | past | rags *= rag* | all sorts of things |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Patient |
| 3 | **talk about** | to-infinitive | rags *= rag* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fall** | past · perfect | the young Tsarevich |  |  | love |  | with the grand young lady | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |
| 5 | **is** | past | rags *= rag* |  |  |  |  | unable *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | rags *= rag* *not said here* |  | Tsarevich |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **come** | past | Lady |  |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **hate** | past | the stepmother | the old man's daughter |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus |
| 9 | **do** | past · perfect | Lady | Lady's work |  |  |  | nicely *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 10 | **sort** |  |  | things |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 11 | **work** |  | Lady |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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:** «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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