--- title: Then the King's son took out his handkerchief, unrolled it, showed t… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the King's son took out his handkerchief, unrolled it, showed them the six tongues, and put each one into one of the six mouths of the Dragon's six heads, and each of the tongues began to speak and bid the Princess say how the matter went. Who acts: son, each, Princess, matter. 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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 (son, each, Princess, matter), 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:pg29672:22:48 # text = Then the King's son took out his handkerchief, unrolled it, showed them the six tongues, and put each one into one of the six mouths of the Dragon's six heads, and each of the tongues began to speak and bid the Princess say how the matter went. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 out out ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 handkerchief handkerchief NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 unrolled unroll VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 tongues tongue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 22 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 mouths mouth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Dragon Dragon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 33 's 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 38 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 42 nsubj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 tongues tongue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 42 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 xcomp _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 bid bid VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 conj _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 49 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 ccomp _ _ 50 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 53 advmod _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nsubj _ _ 53 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take out** | past | the King's son | King's handkerchief | | | then | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme | | 2 | **unroll** | past | the King's son *not said here* | handkerchief | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 3 | **show** | past | the King's son *not said here* | sons *= son* | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient tongue=Topic | | 4 | **put** | infinitive | the King's son *not said here* | each one | | | | into one of the six mouths of the Dragon's six heads | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Goal | | 5 | **begin** | past | each | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | each *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **bid** | infinitive | each *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Princess | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **go** | past | the matter | | | | | | 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/22/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/22/49/) - ↑ back to [The Two Princes, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/22/)