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title: But his wife stayed at home and put everything to rights again, rail… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But his wife stayed at home and put everything to rights again, railing and scolding at her husband as a madman. Who acts: wife. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 68

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But his wife stayed at home and put everything to rights again, railing and scolding at her husband as a madman.

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** stay, put, rail, scold · **To what, where:** home, everything

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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:pg29672:3:68
# text = But his wife stayed at home and put everything to rights again, railing and scolding at her husband as a madman.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	railing	rail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	scolding	scold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	madman	madman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past | man's wife |  |  | home |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | man's wife *not said here* | everything |  |  | again | to rights | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent everything=Goal |
| 3 | **rail** | gerund | man's wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **scold** | gerund | man's wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at wife's husband; as a madman | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as madman=Attribute |

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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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