--- title: The king's agents took to worrying his subjects for needles, and bro… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: The king's agents took to worrying his subjects for needles, and brought such trouble upon the whole kingdom, that his ministers entreated him to have the beast put to death. Who acts: agents, ministers. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MY --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/104/) [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 III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/) / 104 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 104 The king's agents took to worrying his subjects for needles, and brought such trouble upon the whole kingdom, that his ministers entreated him to have the beast put to death. **Who acts:** agents, ministers · **What happens:** take, worry, bring, entreat, have, put · **To what, where:** subjects, such trouble, king, beast This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (agents, ministers), 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:pg22373:35:104 # text = The king's agents took to worrying his subjects for needles, and brought such trouble upon the whole kingdom, that his ministers entreated him to have the beast put to death. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 agents agent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 worrying worry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 subjects subject NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 needles needle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 15 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 upon upon ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 ministers minister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 entreated entreat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | the king's agents | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **worry** | gerund | the king's agents *not said here* | king's subjects | | | | for needles | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | | 3 | **bring** | past | the king's agents *not said here* | such trouble | | | | upon the whole kingdom | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme | | 4 | **entreat** | past | king's ministers | king | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **have** | to-infinitive | king's ministers *not said here* | the beast | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Patient | | 6 | **put** | participle | | the beast *not said here* | | | | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | 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 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/103/) - next →: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/105/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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