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title: Then all the people mocked them: "You see what you have gained by se… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then all the people mocked them: "You see what you have gained by sending your father to school! Who acts: people, You. 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 41

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Then all the people mocked them: "You see what you have gained by sending your father to school!

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**Who acts:** people, You · **What happens:** mock, see, gain, send · **To what, where:** fools, father, school · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (people, You), 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:pg29672:23:41
# text = Then all the people mocked them: "You see what you have gained by sending your father to school!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	mocked	mock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	gained	gain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	_
15	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mock** | past | all people | fools *= fool* |  |  | then |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **gain** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **send** *in a quote* | gerund |  | your father |  | school |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent father=Theme to school=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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