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title: I did not bother much about the money afterward, because I had such… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I did not bother much about the money afterward, because I had such good children; but when you sent me to school I came to this self-same oak, and I said to myself, "I wonder if these few silver pieces have been waiting for their master all this time! Who acts: I, you, few silver pieces. A sentence
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 120

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I did not bother much about the money afterward, because I had such good children; but when you sent me to school I came to this self-same oak, and I said to myself, "I wonder if these few silver pieces have been waiting for their master all this time!

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**Who acts:** I, you, few silver pieces · **What happens:** not bother, have, send, come, say, wonder · **To what, where:** such good children, me, school, self same oak, myself · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, few silver pieces), 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:pg29672:22:120
# text = I did not bother much about the money afterward, because I had such good children; but when you sent me to school I came to this self-same oak, and I said to myself, "I wonder if these few silver pieces have been waiting for their master all this time!
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	bother	bother	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	afterward	afterward	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
19	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	nsubj	_	_
29	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	wonder	wonder	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	ccomp	_	_
43	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
44	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	47	det	_	_
45	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
46	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nsubj	_	_
48	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	aux	_	_
50	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	ccomp	_	_
51	for	for	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
54	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	56	det:predet	_	_
55	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	56	det	_	_
56	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bother** | past · do-support | I |  |  |  |  | about the money; afterward *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **have** | past | I | such good children |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 3 | **send** | past | you | me |  | school |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to school=Destination |
| 4 | **come** | past | I |  |  | self same oak |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to oak=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **say** *speech: express* | past | I |  | myself |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to myself=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **wonder** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **wait** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | this few silver pieces |  |  |  | time | for children's master | vn exist-47.1 «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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