--- title: So they returned together to the town, and immediately all the black… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So they returned together to the town, and immediately all the black cloth was taken off the houses and the bells fell a-ringing, and all the people rejoiced because the coachman had killed the Dragon. " Who acts: heads, bells, people. 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" **Who acts:** heads, bells, people · **What happens:** return, take off, fall, rejoice, kill · **To what, where:** black cloth, ringing, coachman This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heads, bells, people), 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:pg29672:22:39 # text = So they returned together to the town, and immediately all the black cloth was taken off the houses and the bells fell a-ringing, and all the people rejoiced because the coachman had killed the Dragon. " 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 together together ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 10 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 14 det:predet _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 17 off off ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 bells bell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ringing ringing NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 31 det:predet _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 rejoiced rejoice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 33 because because SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 coachman coachman NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 advcl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Dragon Dragon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **return** | past | heads *= head* | | | | | to the town *result*; together *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to town=Result | | 2 | **take off** | past · passive | | all black cloth | | | | off the houses | tree rules | | 3 | **fall** | past | the bells | a ringing | | | | | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient ringing=Result | | 4 | **rejoice** | past | all people | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **kill** | past · perfect · passive | | the coachman | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer dragon=Result | 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 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/22/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/22/40/) - ↑ back to [The Two Princes, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/22/)