--- title: Afterwards he went into the back court, opened the red coffer, and t… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Afterwards he went into the back court, opened the red coffer, and thence issued oxen and cows, sheep and rams; there were multitudes of all sorts of cattle, so that all the sheds and pastures were crammed full. Who acts: Prince, multitudes. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/172/) [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/) / 172 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 172 Afterwards he went into the back court, opened the red coffer, and thence issued oxen and cows, sheep and rams; there were multitudes of all sorts of cattle, so that all the sheds and pastures were crammed full. **Who acts:** Prince, multitudes · **What happens:** go, open, issue, be, cram, sort · **To what, where:** back court, red coffer, issued oxen, cattle 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 (Prince, multitudes), 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:pg22373:26:172 # text = Afterwards he went into the back court, opened the red coffer, and thence issued oxen and cows, sheep and rams; there were multitudes of all sorts of cattle, so that all the sheds and pastures were crammed full. 1 Afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 coffer coffer NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 15 thence thence ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 issued issue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 17 oxen ox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 rams ram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 25 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 26 expl _ _ 26 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 advcl _ _ 27 multitudes multitude NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 30 det _ _ 30 sorts sort NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 cattle cattle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 34 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 42 mark _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 fixed _ _ 36 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 38 det:predet _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 sheds shed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 pastures pasture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 conj _ _ 41 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 crammed cram VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 43 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Prince | | | the back court | | afterwards *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into court=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **open** | past | Prince *not said here* | the red coffer | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location coffer=Theme | | 3 | **issue** | participle | | | | | | thence *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **be** | past | multitudes of all sorts of cattle | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **cram** | past · passive | | issued oxen and cows and sheep and rams | | | | full *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 6 | **sort** | | | cattle | | | | | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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 171](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/171/) - next →: [sentence 173](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/173/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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