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title: But as for the parson, he took good care to tie himself first of all… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But as for the parson, he took good care to tie himself first of all to the pillar which held up the roof of the house. Who acts: parson, pillar. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 110

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But as for the parson, he took good care to tie himself first of all to the pillar which held up the roof of the house.

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**Who acts:** parson, pillar · **What happens:** take, tie, hold up · **To what, where:** good care, parson, roof

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parson, pillar), 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:pg29672:23:110
# text = But as for the parson, he took good care to tie himself first of all to the pillar which held up the roof of the house.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	parson	parson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	tie	tie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	advmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	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 | parson | good care |  |  |  | for the parson | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent care=Theme for parson=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **tie** | to-infinitive | parson *not said here* | parson |  |  |  | of all; to the pillar; first *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient to pillar=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **hold up** | past | the pillar | the roof of the house |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot roof=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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