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title: But for the crowds of people there, the brothers would have fallen u… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But for the crowds of people there, the brothers would have fallen upon and beaten each other in their wrath. Who acts: brothers. 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 39

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But for the crowds of people there, the brothers would have fallen upon and beaten each other in their wrath.

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**Who acts:** brothers · **What happens:** fall, beat · **To what, where:** other

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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 (brothers), 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:pg29672:23:39
# text = But for the crowds of people there, the brothers would have fallen upon and beaten each other in their wrath.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	crowds	crowd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | would · perfect | the brothers |  |  |  |  | for the crowds of people | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for crowd=Theme |
| 2 | **beat** | participle | the brothers *not said here* | each other |  |  |  | in brothers's wrath | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent other=Patient in wrath=Topic |

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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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