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title: "How shall we manage to live with so little?" said the father.--"Wai… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "How shall we manage to live with so little?" said the father.--"Wait a while, dad, and we shall have still more," said the son. " Who acts: we, father, son. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 117

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"How shall we manage to live with so little?" said the father.--"Wait a while, dad, and we shall have still more," said the son. "

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**Who acts:** we, father, son · **What happens:** manage, live, say, wait, have · **To what, where:** more · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, father, son), 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:pg29672:2:117
# text = "How shall we manage to live with so little?" said the father.--"Wait a while, dad, and we shall have still more," said the son. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	ccomp	_	_
29	still	still	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
33	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **manage** *in a quote* | shall | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **live** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with little | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with little=Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the father |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **wait** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | while |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | we | more |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the son |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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