--- title: Then they told this to the coachman, who had been made a Prince, and… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then they told this to the coachman, who had been made a Prince, and the coachman was very angry and said, "Whoever maintains that a Dragon has tongues, him will I order to be tied to four wild horses, and they shall tear him to pieces on the open steppe!" Who acts: Tsar, coachman, Whoever, Dragon. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/22/46/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / [The Two Princes, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/22/) / 46 # Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 46 Then they told this to the coachman, who had been made a Prince, and the coachman was very angry and said, "Whoever maintains that a Dragon has tongues, him will I order to be tied to four wild horses, and they shall tear him to pieces on the open steppe!" **Who acts:** Tsar, coachman, Whoever, Dragon, tongues · **What happens:** tell, make, be, say, maintain, have · **To what, where:** this, coachman, brother · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Tsar, coachman, Whoever, Dragon), 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:pg29672:22:46 # text = Then they told this to the coachman, who had been made a Prince, and the coachman was very angry and said, "Whoever maintains that a Dragon has tongues, him will I order to be tied to four wild horses, and they shall tear him to pieces on the open steppe!" 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 obj _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 coachman coachman NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl:relcl _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 coachman coachman NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 very very ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 Whoever whoever PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 maintains maintain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Dragon Dragon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 32 tongues tongue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nmod _ _ 35 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 order order VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 39 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 tied tie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 xcomp _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 44 nummod _ _ 43 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 47 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 48 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 49 tear tear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 50 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obj _ _ 51 to to ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 obl _ _ 53 on on ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 55 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 56 steppe steppe NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 57 ! ! PUNCT . _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 58 " " PUNCT '' _ 49 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Tsar | this | | | then | to the coachman | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent this=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **make** | past · perfect · passive | | the coachman | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary prince=Product | | 3 | **is** | past | the coachman | | | | | angry *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Tsar *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **maintain** *in a quote* | present | Whoever | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | present | a Dragon | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **order** *in a quote* | future | tongues brother | | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **tie** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | tongues brother *not said here* | | | | | to four wild horses | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: to horse=Co-Patient | | 9 | **tear** *in a quote* | shall | Tsar | brother | | | | to pieces on the open steppe *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to piece=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 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/22/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/22/47/) - ↑ back to [The Two Princes, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/22/)