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title: Then he mounted his horse and took the dogs with him, that he might… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he mounted his horse and took the dogs with him, that he might live by what they caught. Who acts: God, teeth. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 54

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Then he mounted his horse and took the dogs with him, that he might live by what they caught.

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**Who acts:** God, teeth · **What happens:** mount, take, live, catch · **To what, where:** horse, dogs

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, 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 (God, teeth), 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:pg29672:5:54
# text = Then he mounted his horse and took the dogs with him, that he might live by what they caught.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | past | God | God's horse |  |  | then |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | past | God *not said here* |  | the dogs |  |  | with God | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination |
| 3 | **live** | might | God |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by what=Location |
| 4 | **catch** | past | teeth *= tooth* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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