--- title: Then the prince bade his servants open his trunk and take out a shir… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the prince bade his servants open his trunk and take out a shirt and pantaloons and all manner of raiment, whereupon the naked man went into the water and washed, and after that he dressed himself. Who acts: prince, servants, naked man. 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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 (prince, servants, naked man), 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:pg29672:25:82 # text = Then the prince bade his servants open his trunk and take out a shirt and pantaloons and all manner of raiment, whereupon the naked man went into the water and washed, and after that he dressed himself. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 bade bade VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 open open VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 12 out out ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 shirt shirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 pantaloons pantaloon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 manner manner NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 raiment raiment NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 whereupon whereupon ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 naked naked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 28 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 washed wash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 after after SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 fixed _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 dressed dress VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 39 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bade** | past | the prince | | | | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **open** | present | Prince's servants | Prince's trunk | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trunk=Theme | | 3 | **take out** | infinitive | Prince's servants *not said here* | a shirt and pantaloons and all manner of raiment | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme | | 4 | **go** | past | the naked man | | | the water | | whereupon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **wash** | participle | the naked man *not said here* | | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **dress** | past | Prince | Prince | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/25/81/) - next →: [sentence 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/25/83/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/25/)