--- title: But the one remaining grain of millet-seed turned into a most beaute… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But the one remaining grain of millet-seed turned into a most beauteous youth, a youth so beauteous that when the Tsarivna beheld him she fell in love with him on the spot, and begged the Tsar and Tsaritsa right piteously to let her have him as her husband. " Who acts: one, Tsarivna, multitude. 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" **Who acts:** one, Tsarivna, multitude · **What happens:** remain, turn, behold, fall, beg, let · **To what, where:** grain, millet seed, beauteous youth, youth, love, Tsar This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, Tsarivna, multitude), 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:pg29672:2:166 # text = But the one remaining grain of millet-seed turned into a most beauteous youth, a youth so beauteous that when the Tsarivna beheld him she fell in love with him on the spot, and begged the Tsar and Tsaritsa right piteously to let her have him as her husband. " 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 4 remaining remain VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 millet millet NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 14 advmod _ _ 14 beauteous beauteous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 beauteous beauteous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 22 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Tsarivna Tsarivna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 beheld behold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 Tsar Tsar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 Tsaritsa Tsaritsa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 43 right right ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 piteously piteously ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 advcl _ _ 47 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 obj _ _ 48 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 xcomp _ _ 49 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obj _ _ 50 as as ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 52 nmod:poss _ _ 52 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ 54 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remain** | gerund | the one *not said here* | grain of millet seed | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme grain=Attribute | | 2 | **turn** | participle | | millet seed *not said here* | | a beauteous youth | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into youth=Trajectory | | 3 | **behold** | past | the Tsarivna | youth | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 4 | **fall** | past | multitude | | | love | | with youth; on the spot | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | | 5 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | | | the Tsar and Tsaritsa | | | piteously *property* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent tsar=Recipient | | 6 | **let** | to-infinitive | | multitude | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **have** | infinitive | multitude *not said here* | Tsar | | | | as multitude's husband | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 165](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/165/) - next →: [sentence 167](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/167/) - ↑ back to [Oh: the Tsar of the Forest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/)