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title: Then Tremsin picked up the feather and went into the town over again… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Tremsin picked up the feather and went into the town over against him, and in that town there lived a rich nobleman. Who acts: Tremsin. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 149

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Then Tremsin picked up the feather and went into the town over against him, and in that town there lived a rich nobleman.

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**Who acts:** Tremsin · **What happens:** pick up, go, live · **To what, where:** feather, town, rich nobleman

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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 (Tremsin), 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:pg29672:8:149
# text = Then Tremsin picked up the feather and went into the town over against him, and in that town there lived a rich nobleman.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Tremsin	Tremsin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	against	against	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
20	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick up** | past | Tremsin | the feather |  |  | then |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | past | Tremsin *not said here* |  |  | the town |  | over youth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into town=Initial\_Location over he=Destination |
| 3 | **live** | past | Tremsin *not said here* | a rich nobleman |  | that town; there |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme nobleman=Location |

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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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