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title: So the old man was no longer ill-treated by his children, but lived… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the old man was no longer ill-treated by his children, but lived among them like an emperor in his own empire, but no sooner did he die than his children made what haste they could to lay hands upon the casket. Who acts: children, man. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two P
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 16

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So the old man was no longer ill-treated by his children, but lived among them like an emperor in his own empire, but no sooner did he die than his children made what haste they could to lay hands upon the casket.

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**Who acts:** children, man · **What happens:** treat, live, die, make, lay · **To what, where:** old man, haste, hands, casket

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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 (children, 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:pg29672:23:16
# text = So the old man was no longer ill-treated by his children, but lived among them like an emperor in his own empire, but no sooner did he die than his children made what haste they could to lay hands upon the casket.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
6	no	no	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
8	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	among	among	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	_
30	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
33	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	ccomp	_	_
37	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	38	det	_	_
38	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
43	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
44	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	casket	casket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **treat** | past · passive | man's children | the old man |  |  |  | long *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **live** | past | man's children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | among children *= child*; like a emperor in man's own empire | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among they=Location |
| 3 | **die** | past · do-support | man |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | past | man's children | what haste |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product |
| 5 | **lay** | to-infinitive | man's children *not said here* | hands |  | the casket |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon casket=Destination |

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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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