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title: The brick-burners had pity on him; they gave him an old tattered gar… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The brick-burners had pity on him; they gave him an old tattered garment to wear and a piece of black bread and a gherkin to eat. Who acts: brick burners, burners. 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 49

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The brick-burners had pity on him; they gave him an old tattered garment to wear and a piece of black bread and a gherkin to eat.

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**Who acts:** brick burners, burners · **What happens:** have, give, tatter, wear, eat · **To what, where:** pity, old tattered garment, body

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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 (brick burners, burners), 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:pg29672:19:49
# text = The brick-burners had pity on him; they gave him an old tattered garment to wear and a piece of black bread and a gherkin to eat.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	burners	burner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	tattered	tatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	garment	garment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	gherkin	gherkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the brick burners | pity |  |  |  | on body | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | past | burners *= burner* | a old tattered garment and a piece of black bread and a gherkin | body |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient garment=Theme |
| 3 | **tatter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **wear** | to-infinitive | burners *= burner* *not said here* | a old tattered garment and a piece of black bread and a gherkin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive | burners *= burner* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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