--- title: Then he came out of his bath, and immediately they fell upon him, cu… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then he came out of his bath, and immediately they fell upon him, cut him to pieces, put him in a sack, placed him on his horse, and let the horse go where it would. Who acts: father, bath, horse. 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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 (father, bath, horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg29672:915`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29672:10:87 # text = Then he came out of his bath, and immediately they fell upon him, cut him to pieces, put him in a sack, placed him on his horse, and let the horse go where it would. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 bath bath NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 upon upon ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 sack sack NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 placed place VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 38 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 40 advmod _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come out** | past | father | father's bath | | | then | | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient bath=Result | | 2 | **fall** | past | bath | | | | | upon father; immediately *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location | | 3 | **cut** | past | bath *not said here* | father | | | | to pieces *result* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to piece=Result | | 4 | **put** | past | bath *not said here* | father | | a sack | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in sack=Destination | | 5 | **place** | past | bath *not said here* | father | | | | on father's horse | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on horse=Destination | | 6 | **let** | past | bath *not said here* | the horse | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **go** | infinitive | the horse *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/10/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/10/88/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Unlucky Daniel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/10/)