--- title: So the wise brothers came down, put all the merchandise on the backs… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So the wise brothers came down, put all the merchandise on the backs of the robbers' horses, and went home with it; but the only thing that Ivan was able to secure for himself was a bag of incense. Who acts: wise brothers, only thing, Ivan. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/23/64/) [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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/23/) / 64 # Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 64 So the wise brothers came down, put all the merchandise on the backs of the robbers' horses, and went home with it; but the only thing that Ivan was able to secure for himself was a bag of incense. **Who acts:** wise brothers, only thing, Ivan · **What happens:** come down, put, go, be, secure · **To what, where:** merchandise, backs 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 (wise brothers, only thing, Ivan), 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:pg29672:23:64 # text = So the wise brothers came down, put all the merchandise on the backs of the robbers' horses, and went home with it; but the only thing that Ivan was able to secure for himself was a bag of incense. 1 So so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 down down ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 9 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 11 det:predet _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 merchandise merchandise NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 backs back NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 robbers robber NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ' 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 23 home home ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 31 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 32 Ivan Ivan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 secure secure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 41 nsubj _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 incense incense NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come down** | past | the wise brothers | | | | | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **put** | infinitive | the wise brothers *not said here* | all merchandise | | the backs of the robbers's horses | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent merchandise=Theme on back=Destination | | 3 | **go** | past | the wise brothers *not said here* | | | | | with merchandise; home *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary | | 4 | **is** | past | the only thing | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **secure** | to-infinitive | the only thing *not said here* | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **is** | past | Ivan | | | | | for a bag; of incense | tree rules | 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 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/23/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/23/65/) - ↑ back to [The Two Princes, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/23/)