--- title: He came, and the foal said to him, "Take off the night-dresses of th… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He came, and the foal said to him, "Take off the night-dresses of the forty sleeping bridegrooms and put them on the forty sleeping brides, and put the night-dresses of the brides on the bridegrooms, for a great woe is nigh!" Who acts: foal, great woe. 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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 (foal, great woe), 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:pg29672:24:162 # text = He came, and the foal said to him, "Take off the night-dresses of the forty sleeping bridegrooms and put them on the forty sleeping brides, and put the night-dresses of the brides on the bridegrooms, for a great woe is nigh!" 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 foal foal NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 13 off off ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 dresses dress NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 21 sleeping sleeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 bridegrooms bridegroom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 29 sleeping sleeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 brides bride NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 dresses dress NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 brides bride NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ _ 41 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 bridegrooms bridegroom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 45 for for SCONJ IN _ 50 mark _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 woe woe NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 49 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 cop _ _ 50 nigh nigh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | foal | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the foal | | brother | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **take off** *in a quote* | infinitive | | the night dresses of the forty sleeping bridegrooms | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Theme | | 4 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | | dresses *= dress* | | | | on the forty sleeping brides | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on bride=Destination | | 5 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | | the night dresses of the brides on the bridegrooms | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent dress=Goal | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a great woe | | | | | nigh *property* | 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 161](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/161/) - next →: [sentence 163](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/163/) - ↑ back to [The Magic Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/)