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title: He kept to himself, and his goods increased and multiplied exceeding… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He kept to himself, and his goods increased and multiplied exceedingly; the only thing wanting to his happiness was a wife, but a wife he was afraid to take. Who acts: servant, goods, only thing, wife. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf, with its dependency tree and th
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 18

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He kept to himself, and his goods increased and multiplied exceedingly; the only thing wanting to his happiness was a wife, but a wife he was afraid to take.

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**Who acts:** servant, goods, only thing, wife · **What happens:** keep, increase, multiply, want, be, take · **To what, where:** servant, wife

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, goods, only thing, wife), 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:pg29672:17:18
# text = He kept to himself, and his goods increased and multiplied exceedingly; the only thing wanting to his happiness was a wife, but a wife he was afraid to take.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	9	nsubj	_	_
9	increased	increase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	multiplied	multiply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
17	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | servant |  | servant |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **increase** | past | servant's goods |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **multiply** | past | servant's goods *not said here* |  |  |  |  | exceedingly *property* | vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **want** | gerund | the only thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to servant's happiness | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent to happiness=Attribute |
| 5 | **is a** | past | the only thing | a wife |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | a wife |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **take** | to-infinitive | a wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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:** «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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