--- title: His master gave him a place where he might build his hut, and his wi… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: His master gave him a place where he might build his hut, and his wife helped him so much with the building of it that it seemed to him as if he himself never laid a hand to it. Who acts: master, Serpent, wife, it. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, Serpent, wife, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29672:9:22 # text = His master gave him a place where he might build his hut, and his wife helped him so much with the building of it that it seemed to him as if he himself never laid a hand to it. 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 10 advmod _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 hut hut NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 much much ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nmod _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 31 as as SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 32 if if SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 33 nmod:unmarked _ _ 35 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | Serpent's master | a place | Serpent | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient place=Theme | | 2 | **build** | might | Serpent | Serpent's hut | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hut=Product | | 3 | **help** | past | Serpent's wife | | Serpent | | | with the building of hut | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary with building=Theme | | 4 | **seem** | past | it | | Serpent | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **lay** | past | Serpent | a hand | hut | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Result | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/9/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/9/23/) - ↑ back to [The Serpent-wife](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/9/)