--- title: Prince Ivan dug it up and saw an iron plate with twelve padlocks on… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Prince Ivan dug it up and saw an iron plate with twelve padlocks on it. Who acts: Prince Ivan. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/) / 19 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 19 Prince Ivan dug it up and saw an iron plate with twelve padlocks on it. **Who acts:** Prince Ivan · **What happens:** dig up, see · **To what, where:** piece, iron plate This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince Ivan), 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:pg22373:24:19 # text = Prince Ivan dug it up and saw an iron plate with twelve padlocks on it. 1 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Ivan Ivan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 dug dig VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 iron iron ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 plate plate NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 padlocks padlock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dig up** | past | Prince Ivan | piece | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **see** | past | Prince Ivan *not said here* | a iron plate | | piece | | with twelve padlocks | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plate=Stimulus | 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:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/20/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/)