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title: So his father and mother laid their heads together, and sent him to… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So his father and mother laid their heads together, and sent him to a tailor's to learn tailoring. Who acts: father. 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 22

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So his father and mother laid their heads together, and sent him to a tailor's to learn tailoring.

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**Who acts:** father · **What happens:** lay, send, learn · **To what, where:** heads, last, tailor, tailoring

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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 (father), 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:pg29672:2:22
# text = So his father and mother laid their heads together, and sent him to a tailor's to learn tailoring.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
20	tailoring	tailoring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **lay** | past | last's father and mother | father's heads |  |  |  | together *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Result |
| 2 | **send** | past | last's father and mother *not said here* | last | a tailor |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to tailor=Destination |
| 3 | **learn** | to-infinitive | last's father and mother *not said here* | tailoring |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tailoring=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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