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title: He listened to no good counsel from whithersoever it might come, but… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He listened to no good counsel from whithersoever it might come, but did only that which was good in his own eyes, and nobody durst put him right. Who acts: man, Tsar, nobody durst. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 2

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He listened to no good counsel from whithersoever it might come, but did only that which was good in his own eyes, and nobody durst put him right.

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**Who acts:** man, Tsar, nobody durst · **What happens:** listen, come, do, be, put · **To what, where:** own eyes, man

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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 (man, Tsar, nobody durst), 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:pg29672:19:2
# text = He listened to no good counsel from whithersoever it might come, but did only that which was good in his own eyes, and nobody durst put him right.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	whithersoever	whithersoever	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	27	compound	_	_
27	durst	durst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	right	right	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | past | man |  |  |  |  | to no good counsel | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to counsel=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | might | Tsar |  |  |  |  | whithersoever *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  | man's own eyes |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **put** | past | nobody durst |  | man |  |  | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |

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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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