--- title: So he took the red coffer, set it on the ground, and opened it--and… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: So he took the red coffer, set it on the ground, and opened it--and out of it came such a quantity of different kinds of cattle that there was no counting them: the island had barely room enough for them. Who acts: King, quantity, island. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Mu --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/148/) [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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/) / 148 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 148 So he took the red coffer, set it on the ground, and opened it--and out of it came such a quantity of different kinds of cattle that there was no counting them: the island had barely room enough for them. **Who acts:** King, quantity, island · **What happens:** take, set, open, come, count, have · **To what, where:** red coffer, shore, ground, coffers, room This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, quantity, island), 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:pg22373:26:148 # text = So he took the red coffer, set it on the ground, and opened it--and out of it came such a quantity of different kinds of cattle that there was no counting them: the island had barely room enough for them. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 coffer coffer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 -- -- PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 out out ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 22 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 25 det:predet _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 quantity quantity NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 cattle cattle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 31 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 32 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 33 expl _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 35 det _ _ 35 counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 36 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 : : PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 41 barely barely ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 enough enough ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 44 for for ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | King | the red coffer | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffer=Theme | | 2 | **set** | infinitive | King *not said here* | shore | | the ground | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on ground=Destination | | 3 | **open** | past | King *not said here* | shore | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 4 | **come** | past | King *not said here* | | | shore | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out it=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **count** | past · progressive | such quantity of different kinds of cattle | coffers *= coffer* | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 6 | **have** | past | the island | room | | | | for coffers *= coffer*; enough *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=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 147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/147/) - next →: [sentence 149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/149/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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