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title: Now near to where he lived was a General who had a lovely daughter,… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now near to where he lived was a General who had a lovely daughter, and this daughter fell in love with the rich man. Who acts: servant, daughter. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 19

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Now near to where he lived was a General who had a lovely daughter, and this daughter fell in love with the rich man.

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**Who acts:** servant, daughter · **What happens:** live, be, have, fall · **To what, where:** lovely daughter, love

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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, daughter), 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:pg29672:17:19
# text = Now near to where he lived was a General who had a lovely daughter, and this daughter fell in love with the rich man.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	near	near	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	General	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | servant |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | servant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | general *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past |  | a lovely daughter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 4 | **fall** | past | this daughter |  |  | love |  | with the rich man | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |

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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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