--- title: When he had put it out he set every thing to rights, placed the merc… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: When he had put it out he set every thing to rights, placed the merchant's daughter in her coffin, covered it up with the lid, and betook himself to reading the psalter. Who acts: Soldier. 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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), 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:pg22373:48:26 # text = When he had put it out he set every thing to rights, placed the merchant's daughter in her coffin, covered it up with the lid, and betook himself to reading the psalter. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 rights right NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 placed place VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 coffin coffin NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 covered cover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 lid lid NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 betook betake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 32 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 31 obj _ _ 33 to to SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 34 reading read VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 psalter psalter NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put out** | past · perfect | Soldier | fire | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | | 2 | **set** | past | Soldier | every thing | | | | to rights | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient thing=Result | | 3 | **place** | past | Soldier *not said here* | the merchant's daughter | | witch's coffin | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme in coffin=Destination | | 4 | **cover up** | past | Soldier *not said here* | fire | | | | with the lid | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with lid=Theme | | 5 | **betake** | past | Soldier *not said here* | Soldier | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **read** | gerund | Soldier *not said here* | the psalter | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent psalter=Topic | 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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/48/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/48/27/) - ↑ back to [Magic and Witchcraft., part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/48/)