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title: So they became brothers, and made a wagon between them, and fastened… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So they became brothers, and made a wagon between them, and fastened ropes to it, and while Armless dragged it along Legless drove it. Who acts: miles, Armless, Legless. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 13

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So they became brothers, and made a wagon between them, and fastened ropes to it, and while Armless dragged it along Legless drove it.

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**Who acts:** miles, Armless, Legless · **What happens:** become, make, fasten, drag, drive · **To what, where:** brothers, wagon, ropes

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miles, Armless, Legless), 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:pg29672:27:13
# text = So they became brothers, and made a wagon between them, and fastened ropes to it, and while Armless dragged it along Legless drove it.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wagon	wagon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	between	between	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	Armless	Armless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	along	along	ADP	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	Legless	legless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	nsubj	_	_
26	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | miles *= mile* | brothers |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | past | miles *= mile* *not said here* | a wagon |  |  |  | between miles *= mile* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wagon=Product |
| 3 | **fasten** | past | miles *= mile* *not said here* | ropes | wagon |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient to it=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **drag** | past | Armless | wagon |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **drive** | past | Legless | wagon |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |

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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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