--- title: "By the Pike's command, at my request, let a marble palace be built,… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: "By the Pike's command, at my request, let a marble palace be built, and let it stand immediately opposite the King's palace!" Who acts: you, palace, Pike, my. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/46/72/) [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/) / [Magic and Witchcraft., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/46/) / 72 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 72 "By the Pike's command, at my request, let a marble palace be built, and let it stand immediately opposite the King's palace!" **Who acts:** you, palace, Pike, my · **What happens:** let, build, stand, command, request · **To what, where:** marble palace, palace · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, palace, Pike, my), 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:pg22373:46:72 # text = "By the Pike's command, at my request, let a marble palace be built, and let it stand immediately opposite the King's palace!" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 By by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Pike Pike PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 command command NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 request request NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 12 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 marble marble NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 opposite opposite ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ! ! PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | a marble palace | | | | by the Pike's command and my request | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | | 2 | **build** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V» | | 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | palace | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **stand** *in a quote* | infinitive | palace *not said here* | | | the King's palace | | immediately *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent opposite palace=Location | | 5 | **command** *in a quote* | | the Pike | | | | | | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **request** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=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 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/46/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/46/73/) - ↑ back to [Magic and Witchcraft., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/46/)