--- title: The Soldier had a good sleep, bought himself a frying-pan,[367] hid… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: The Soldier had a good sleep, bought himself a frying-pan,[367] hid it under his cloak, and towards evening went to the merchant's house. Who acts: Soldier, frying pan. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soldier, frying pan), 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:pg22373:47:183 # text = The Soldier had a good sleep, bought himself a frying-pan,[367] hid it under his cloak, and towards evening went to the merchant's house. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Soldier Soldier PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 bought buy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 9 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 8 obj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 frying frying NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 pan pan NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 367 367 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 18 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 under under ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 cloak cloak NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 towards towards ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 27 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | the Soldier | a good sleep | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Patient | | 2 | **buy** | past | | SOLDIER | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | | 3 | **hide** | past | a frying pan | sleep | | SOLDIER's cloak | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient under cloak=Location | | 4 | **go** | past | the Soldier *not said here* | | | the merchant's house | evening | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location | 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 182](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/47/182/) - next →: [sentence 184](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/47/184/) - ↑ back to [Magic and Witchcraft., part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/47/)