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title: Then he bade them give his faithful wife rich garments as much as sh… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he bade them give his faithful wife rich garments as much as she would, and she stripped off her disguise, and washed her face and grew young again. Who acts: husband, WIVES, rich, woman. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, with its dependency tre
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 139

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Then he bade them give his faithful wife rich garments as much as she would, and she stripped off her disguise, and washed her face and grew young again.

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**Who acts:** husband, WIVES, rich, woman · **What happens:** bade, give, garment, strip off, wash, grow · **To what, where:** faithful wife, much, disguise, face

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, WIVES, rich, woman), 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:pg29672:20:139
# text = Then he bade them give his faithful wife rich garments as much as she would, and she stripped off her disguise, and washed her face and grew young again.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nsubj	_	_
10	garments	garment	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	stripped	strip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	off	off	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	disguise	disguise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	washed	wash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
30	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
31	again	again	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bade** | past | husband |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive | WIVES *= wife* | husband's faithful wife |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme |
| 3 | **garment** | present | rich | much |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **strip off** | past | woman | woman's disguise |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disguise=Patient |
| 5 | **wash** | past | husband *not said here* | woman's face |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
| 6 | **grow** | past | husband *not said here* |  |  |  | again | young *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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