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title: If they gave him anything to eat, he ate it; and if they didn't give… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If they gave him anything to eat, he ate it; and if they didn't give him anything to eat, he did without. Who acts: cinders, Heaven. 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 14

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If they gave him anything to eat, he ate it; and if they didn't give him anything to eat, he did without.

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**Who acts:** cinders, Heaven · **What happens:** give, eat, not give, do · **To what, where:** anything, Heaven, water

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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 (cinders, Heaven), 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:pg29672:2:14
# text = If they gave him anything to eat, he ate it; and if they didn't give him anything to eat, he did without.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
26	without	without	ADP	IN	_	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | cinders *= cinder* | anything | Heaven |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient anything=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | cinders *= cinder* *not said here* | anything *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **eat** | past | Heaven | water |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **give** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | cinders *= cinder* | anything | Heaven |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient anything=Theme |
| 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive | cinders *= cinder* *not said here* | anything *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **do** | past | Heaven |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «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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