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title: They would have liked to take counsel of some one, but they had no p… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They would have liked to take counsel of some one, but they had no parents or kinsmen, nobody at all to whom they could go and ask advice in the matter. Who acts: birds. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 5

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They would have liked to take counsel of some one, but they had no parents or kinsmen, nobody at all to whom they could go and ask advice in the matter.

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**Who acts:** birds · **What happens:** like, take, have, go, ask · **To what, where:** birds, counsel, parents, advice, matter

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds), 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:pg29672:24:5
# text = They would have liked to take counsel of some one, but they had no parents or kinsmen, nobody at all to whom they could go and ask advice in the matter.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	liked	like	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	kinsmen	kinsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	conj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
30	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | would · perfect · passive |  | birds *= bird* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | counsel of some one |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | birds *= bird* | no parents or kinsmen |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | could | birds *= bird* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to whom=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | birds *= bird* *not said here* | advice |  | the matter |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient |

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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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