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title: Do what they would--and the wise men and the wise women did their ut… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Do what they would--and the wise men and the wise women did their utmost--it was of no avail. Who acts: wise men, Tsarivna. 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 42

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Do what they would--and the wise men and the wise women did their utmost--it was of no avail.

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**Who acts:** wise men, Tsarivna · **What happens:** do, be · **To what, where:** utmost

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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 (wise men, Tsarivna), 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:pg29672:8:42
# text = Do what they would--and the wise men and the wise women did their utmost--it was of no avail.
1	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
14	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	utmost	utmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	avail	avail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | the wise men and the wise women | tsardom's utmost |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent utmost=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | past | Tsarivna |  |  |  |  | of no avail | tree rules |

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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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