--- title: So Ivan lost no time in going to the dragon, and the dragon said to… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So Ivan lost no time in going to the dragon, and the dragon said to him, "Go to my house and do me three tasks, and if thou dost them not, I'll devour thee." Who acts: Ivan, time, dragon, thou. 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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 (Ivan, time, dragon, thou), 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:pg29672:24:74 # text = So Ivan lost no time in going to the dragon, and the dragon said to him, "Go to my house and do me three tasks, and if thou dost them not, I'll devour thee." 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 Ivan Ivan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 in in SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 do do VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 iobj _ _ 27 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 tasks task NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 33 nsubj _ _ 33 dost do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 37 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 devour devour VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 40 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | past | Ivan | | | | time | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | gerund | no time *not said here* | | | | | to the dragon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to dragon=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the dragon | | Ivan | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | my house | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | | three tasks | the dragon *= dragon* | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **do** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | thou | tasks *= task* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | | 7 | **devour** *in a quote* | future | the dragon *= dragon* | thee | | | | | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=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 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/75/) - ↑ back to [The Magic Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/)