--- title: "Why did not ye seize them?" cried the Water King louder than before… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: "Why did not ye seize them?" cried the Water King louder than before, and having put the pursuers to a cruel death, he galloped off himself in pursuit of the Prince and Vasilissa the Wise. Who acts: ye, Water King, King. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/27/124/) [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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/27/) / 124 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 124 "Why did not ye seize them?" cried the Water King louder than before, and having put the pursuers to a cruel death, he galloped off himself in pursuit of the Prince and Vasilissa the Wise. **Who acts:** ye, Water King, King · **What happens:** not seize, cry, put, gallop off, pursue · **To what, where:** pursuers, King, pursuit, Prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, Water King, King), 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:pg22373:27:124 # text = "Why did not ye seize them?" cried the Water King louder than before, and having put the pursuers to a cruel death, he galloped off himself in pursuit of the Prince and Vasilissa the Wise. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 6 nsubj _ _ 6 seize seize VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 10 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 Water Water PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 14 louder loud ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 xcomp _ _ 15 than than ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 before before ADV RB _ 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 aux _ _ 20 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 pursuers pursuer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 galloped gallop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 30 off off ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 29 obl _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 pursuit pursuit NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 Vasilissa Vasilissa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 Wise Wise PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **seize** *in a quote* | past · do-support | ye | pursuers *= pursuer* | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the Water King | | | | | loud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **put** | gerund | the Water King *not said here* | the pursuers | | | | to a cruel death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pursuer=Goal | | 4 | **gallop off** | past | King | King | | pursuit of the Prince and Vasilissa | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pursuit=Trajectory | | 5 | **pursue** | | | the Prince and Vasilissa | | | | | nom pursuit «act 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 123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/27/123/) - next →: [sentence 125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/27/125/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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