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title: So they brought to him all the fair young damsels of the land that h… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So they brought to him all the fair young damsels of the land that he might choose one to be his own true bride. Who acts: head, land. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 61

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So they brought to him all the fair young damsels of the land that he might choose one to be his own true bride.

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**Who acts:** head, land · **What happens:** bring, choose, be · **To what, where:** fair young damsels, puss, one, own true bride

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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 (head, land), 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:pg29672:20:61
# text = So they brought to him all the fair young damsels of the land that he might choose one to be his own true bride.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	damsels	damsel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | head | all fair young damsels of the land | puss |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent damsel=Theme to he=Destination |
| 2 | **choose** | might | the land | one |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the land *not said here* | puss's own true bride |  |  |  |  | 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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