---
title: His father then gave him a sound drubbing and sent him to a cobbler'… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: His father then gave him a sound drubbing and sent him to a cobbler's to learn cobbling, but again he ran away home. Who acts: father, last. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/24/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / [Oh: the Tsar of the Forest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/) / 24

# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 24

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
His father then gave him a sound drubbing and sent him to a cobbler's to learn cobbling, but again he ran away home.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** father, last · **What happens:** give, send, learn, run away · **To what, where:** sound drubbing, last, cobbler, cobbling

<!-- .vabout -->
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, last), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg29672:2:24
# text = His father then gave him a sound drubbing and sent him to a cobbler's to learn cobbling, but again he ran away home.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	drubbing	drubbing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
18	cobbling	cobbling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	home	home	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | last's father | a sound drubbing | last |  | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient drubbing=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | past | last's father *not said here* | last | a cobbler |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to cobbler=Destination |
| 3 | **learn** | to-infinitive | last's father *not said here* | cobbling |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cobbling=Topic |
| 4 | **run away** | past | last |  |  |  | again | away, home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/23/)
- next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/25/)
- ↑ back to [Oh: the Tsar of the Forest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/)