--- title: The king's daughter saw there was some one there, came on to the bal… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: The king's daughter saw there was some one there, came on to the balcony, and called out to him, "See, there is a chink in the enclosure; touch it with your little finger, and it will become a door." Who acts: daughter, one, chink. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/38/) [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/) / 38 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 38 The king's daughter saw there was some one there, came on to the balcony, and called out to him, "See, there is a chink in the enclosure; touch it with your little finger, and it will become a door." **Who acts:** daughter, one, chink · **What happens:** see, be, come on, call out, touch, become · **To what, where:** balcony, king, chink, door · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (daughter, one, chink), 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:pg22373:24:38 # text = The king's daughter saw there was some one there, came on to the balcony, and called out to him, "See, there is a chink in the enclosure; touch it with your little finger, and it will become a door." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 7 expl _ _ 7 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 8 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ _ 9 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 10 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 on on ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 balcony balcony NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 20 out out ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 See see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 28 expl _ _ 28 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 chink chink NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 enclosure enclosure NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 35 touch touch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | the king's daughter | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **be** | past | some one | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **come on** | past | the king's daughter *not said here* | | | the balcony | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to balcony=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle | the king's daughter *not said here* | | king | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | | 5 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | the king's daughter *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a chink in the enclosure | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **touch** *in a quote* | infinitive | | chink | | | | with your little finger | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with finger=Instrument | | 8 | **become** *in a quote* | future | chink | a door | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/39/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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