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title: His father gave him another drubbing and sent him to a blacksmith to… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: His father gave him another drubbing and sent him to a blacksmith to learn smith's work. Who acts: father, smith. 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 25

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His father gave him another drubbing and sent him to a blacksmith to learn smith's work.

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**Who acts:** father, smith · **What happens:** give, send, learn, work · **To what, where:** drubbing, last, blacksmith, work

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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, smith), 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:pg29672:2:25
# text = His father gave him another drubbing and sent him to a blacksmith to learn smith's work.
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	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	drubbing	drubbing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
15	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | last's father | another drubbing | last |  |  |  | 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 blacksmith |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to blacksmith=Destination |
| 3 | **learn** | to-infinitive | last's father *not said here* | smith's work |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Topic |
| 4 | **work** |  | smith |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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