--- title: At that the king was so delighted that he never thought of asking wh… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: At that the king was so delighted that he never thought of asking what he wanted a good steed for, but immediately ordered the very best horse he had in his stud to be saddled for the prince. Who acts: Ivan. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/78/) [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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/) / 78 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 78 At that the king was so delighted that he never thought of asking what he wanted a good steed for, but immediately ordered the very best horse he had in his stud to be saddled for the prince. **Who acts:** Ivan · **What happens:** be, not think, ask, want, order, have · **To what, where:** good steed, best horse, stud · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan), 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:pg22373:32:78 # text = At that the king was so delighted that he never thought of asking what he wanted a good steed for, but immediately ordered the very best horse he had in his stud to be saddled for the prince. 1 At at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 1 fixed _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 so so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 delighted delighted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 12 of of SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 14 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 16 obj _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 steed steed NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 very very ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 amod _ _ 28 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 stud stud NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 saddled saddle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | | | | | | at the king; delighted *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past | Ivan | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Ivan *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **want** | past | Ivan | a good steed | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme steed=Attribute | | 5 | **order** | past | | | the best horse | | | immediately *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | | 6 | **have** | past | Ivan | | | Ivan's stud | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **saddle** | to-infinitive · passive | Ivan *not said here* | | | | | for the prince | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination» | 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 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/79/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/)