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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 121

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Then all the courtiers hailed him as the Tsar, but he said, "Where is that damsel who was here just now?"--They brought her instantly before him. "

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**Who acts:** courtiers, Tsar, damsel · **What happens:** hail, say, be, bring · **To what, where:** Tsar, damsel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of Unlucky Daniel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (courtiers, Tsar, damsel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg29672:10:121
# text = Then all the courtiers hailed him as the Tsar, but he said, "Where is that damsel who was here just now?"--They brought her instantly before him. "
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hailed	hail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	damsel	damsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	acl	_	_
23	just	just	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	before	before	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hail** | past | all courtiers | Tsar |  |  | then | as the Tsar | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as tsar=Attribute |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Tsar |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | damsel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | damsel |  |  |  | now | here *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **bring** | past | courtiers *= courtier* | damsel |  |  | before Tsar | instantly *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme before he=Destination |

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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.

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**Text:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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