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title: But there too he did not remain long, but ran away home again, so wh… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But there too he did not remain long, but ran away home again, so what was that poor father to do? " Who acts: last, poor 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 26

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But there too he did not remain long, but ran away home again, so what was that poor father to do? "

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**Who acts:** last, poor father · **What happens:** not remain, run away, be

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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 (last, poor 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:pg29672:2:26
# text = But there too he did not remain long, but ran away home again, so what was that poor father to do? "
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	home	home	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	obj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **remain** | past · do-support | last |  |  | there |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **run away** | past | last *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | poor father |  |  |  |  | do *property* | tree rules |

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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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