--- title: So, no sooner did the old man appear than his eldest daughter-in-law… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So, no sooner did the old man appear than his eldest daughter-in-law came running out to meet him, and bade him welcome in God's name. " Who acts: eldest law, God. 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" **Who acts:** eldest law, God · **What happens:** do, appear, come, run out, meet, welcome · **To what, where:** old man, law, bade, name This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest law, God), 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:pg29672:23:3 # text = So, no sooner did the old man appear than his eldest daughter-in-law came running out to meet him, and bade him welcome in God's name. " 1 So so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 9 advmod _ _ 5 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 appear appear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 than than SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 12 eldest eld ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 17 amod _ _ 13 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 19 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 20 out out ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 bade bade NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 welcome welcome VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | the old man | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality | | 2 | **appear** | present | | | | | | soon *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 3 | **come** | past | man's eldest law | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **run out** | gerund | man's eldest law *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **meet** | to-infinitive | man's eldest law *not said here* | law | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 6 | **welcome** | present | | bade | | God's name | | | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in name=Location | | 7 | **name** | | God | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/23/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/23/4/) - ↑ back to [The Two Princes, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/23/)