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title: This youngest brother came to a strange land, and hired himself out… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This youngest brother came to a strange land, and hired himself out to a husbandman for three gold pieces a year. Who acts: youngest brother. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 133

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This youngest brother came to a strange land, and hired himself out to a husbandman for three gold pieces a year.

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**Who acts:** youngest brother · **What happens:** come, hire out · **To what, where:** strange land, brother

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest brother), 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:pg29672:19:133
# text = This youngest brother came to a strange land, and hired himself out to a husbandman for three gold pieces a year.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	hired	hire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	husbandman	husbandman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | this youngest brother |  |  | a strange land |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **hire out** | past | this youngest brother *not said here* | brother |  |  |  | to a husbandman; for three gold pieces  a year | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent himself=Theme for piece=Beneficiary |

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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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