--- title: The Water King saw that there was nothing to be gained that way, so… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: The Water King saw that there was nothing to be gained that way, so he gave orders to prepare a bath-room for the young couple--an iron bath-room--and to heat it as hot as possible. Who acts: Water King, nothing, 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/pg22373/27/88/) [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/) / 88 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 88 The Water King saw that there was nothing to be gained that way, so he gave orders to prepare a bath-room for the young couple--an iron bath-room--and to heat it as hot as possible. **Who acts:** Water King, nothing, King · **What happens:** see, be, gain, give, prepare, heat · **To what, where:** way, orders, bath room 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 (Water King, nothing, 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:pg22373:27:88 # text = The Water King saw that there was nothing to be gained that way, so he gave orders to prepare a bath-room for the young couple--an iron bath-room--and to heat it as hot as possible. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Water Water PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 7 expl _ _ 7 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 8 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 7 nsubj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 gained gain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 12 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 13 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 orders order NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 prepare prepare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 bath bath NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 -- -- PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 31 iron iron ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 32 bath bath NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 -- -- PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 heat heat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 as as ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 42 as as SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 43 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | the Water King | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **be** | past | nothing | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **gain** | to-infinitive · passive | nothing *not said here* | that way | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: way=Theme | | 4 | **give** | past | King | orders | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **prepare** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | a bath room | | | | for the young couple and a iron bath room | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent room=Product for couple=Beneficiary | | 6 | **heat** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | way | | | | hot *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/27/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/27/89/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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