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title: They lived together, and time went on and the young man still remain… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They lived together, and time went on and the young man still remained a bachelor, and was so handsome that words cannot describe it. Who acts: merchants, young man, words. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 123

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They lived together, and time went on and the young man still remained a bachelor, and was so handsome that words cannot describe it.

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**Who acts:** merchants, young man, words · **What happens:** live together, go on, remain, be, not describe · **To what, where:** bachelor

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchants, young man, words), 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:pg29672:8:123
# text = They lived together, and time went on and the young man still remained a bachelor, and was so handsome that words cannot describe it.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	on	on	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bachelor	bachelor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	describe	describe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live together** | past | merchants *= merchant* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go on** | past |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **remain** | past | the young man | a bachelor |  |  | still |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bachelor=Attribute |
| 4 | **is** | past | merchants *= merchant* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | handsome *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **describe** | can | words | bachelor |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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