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title: Willingly would he have done any sort of work if he had only known h… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Willingly would he have done any sort of work if he had only known how, but he had never been used to work, so he had to go along begging his bread, and could scarce beg enough to keep body and soul together. Who acts: man, scarce beg. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 96

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Willingly would he have done any sort of work if he had only known how, but he had never been used to work, so he had to go along begging his bread, and could scarce beg enough to keep body and soul together.

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**Who acts:** man, scarce beg · **What happens:** do, know, not use, work, have, go along · **To what, where:** sort, man, scarce beg, bread, body, work

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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, scarce beg), 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:pg29672:19:96
# text = Willingly would he have done any sort of work if he had only known how, but he had never been used to work, so he had to go along begging his bread, and could scarce beg enough to keep body and soul together.
1	Willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	along	along	ADP	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	begging	beg	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	scarce	scarce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	beg	beg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
40	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	acl	_	_
43	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
46	together	together	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | would · perfect | man | any sort of work |  |  |  | willingly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Eventuality |
| 2 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | man |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **use** | past · perfect · passive |  | man |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **work** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** | past | man | scarce beg |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go along** | to-infinitive | scarce beg *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | scarce beg *not said here* | man's bread |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent bread=Recipient |
| 8 | **keep** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | body and soul |  |  |  | together *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme |
| 9 | **sort** |  |  | work |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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