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title: They went on and on till they came to another village, and at the ve… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They went on and on till they came to another village, and at the very end of it was an empty hut--the people who had lived there had died of hunger. Who acts: brothers, end, people. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, with its dependency tree a
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 13

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They went on and on till they came to another village, and at the very end of it was an empty hut--the people who had lived there had died of hunger.

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**Who acts:** brothers, end, people · **What happens:** go, come, be, live, die · **To what, where:** village, end

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, end, people), 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:pg29672:25:13
# text = They went on and on till they came to another village, and at the very end of it was an empty hut--the people who had lived there had died of hunger.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	_
6	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **go** | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  | another village |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | end |  |  |  |  | of a empty hut | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | past · perfect | the people |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **die** | past · perfect | the people |  |  |  | at the end | of hunger | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer |

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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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