--- title: She immediately went and commanded the ant to be there by evening, a… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: She immediately went and commanded the ant to be there by evening, and when the ant came, the Tsaritsa ordered her to climb up the trees with her kinsmen and bite off the feathers round the birds' wings. Who acts: ant, Tsaritsa. 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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 (ant, Tsaritsa), 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:pg29672:24:12 # text = She immediately went and commanded the ant to be there by evening, and when the ant came, the Tsaritsa ordered her to climb up the trees with her kinsmen and bite off the feathers round the birds' wings. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 cop _ _ 10 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 15 when when SCONJ WRB _ 18 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Tsaritsa Tsaritsa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 23 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 kinsmen kinsman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 bite bite VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 34 off off ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 37 round round ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ' 's PART POS _ 39 case _ _ 41 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | ant | | | | | immediately *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **command** | past | ant *not said here* | the ant | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent ant=Eventuality | | 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | ant *not said here* | the ant *not said here* | | | evening | there *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **come** | past | the ant | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **order** | past | the Tsaritsa | | ant | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **climb up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Tsaritsa *not said here* | the trees | | | | with ant's kinsmen | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme | | 7 | **bite off** | present | ant *not said here* | the feathers | | | | round the birds's wings | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient | 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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/13/) - ↑ back to [The Magic Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/)