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title: So one after another all four sons took their father to live with th… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So one after another all four sons took their father to live with them, and he was glad to leave them all. Who acts: one, man. 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 71

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So one after another all four sons took their father to live with them, and he was glad to leave them all.

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**Who acts:** one, man · **What happens:** take, live, be, leave · **To what, where:** father, sons

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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 (one, man), 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:pg29672:22:71
# text = So one after another all four sons took their father to live with them, and he was glad to leave them all.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nmod	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | one after another |  | sons's father |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument father=Destination |
| 2 | **live** | to-infinitive | one after another *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with sons *= son* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | man |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | sons *= son* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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