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title: THE UNGRATEFUL CHILDREN AND THE OLD FATHER WHO WENT TO SCHOOL AGAIN — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: THE UNGRATEFUL CHILDREN AND THE OLD FATHER WHO WENT TO SCHOOL AGAIN Who acts: OLD FATHER. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 52

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THE UNGRATEFUL CHILDREN AND THE OLD FATHER WHO WENT TO SCHOOL AGAIN

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**Who acts:** OLD FATHER · **What happens:** go, school

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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 (OLD 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:pg29672:22:52
# text = THE UNGRATEFUL CHILDREN AND THE OLD FATHER WHO WENT TO SCHOOL AGAIN
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	UNGRATEFUL	ungrateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	CHILDREN	CHILDREN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	OLD	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	FATHER	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	WHO	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	WENT	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	TO	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	SCHOOL	school	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	AGAIN	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **go** | past | the OLD FATHER |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **school** | infinitive | the OLD FATHER *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | 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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