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title: Next morning the prince came to seek Ivan, and marvelled to find tha… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Next morning the prince came to seek Ivan, and marvelled to find that everything had been done as the serpent had commanded. Who acts: prince. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 1

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Next morning the prince came to seek Ivan, and marvelled to find that everything had been done as the serpent had commanded.

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** come, seek, marvell, find, do, command · **To what, where:** Ivan, everything, serpent · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, 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 (prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg29672:26:1
# text = Next morning the prince came to seek Ivan, and marvelled to find that everything had been done as the serpent had commanded.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	marvelled	marvell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	ccomp	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	commanded	command	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the prince |  |  |  | morning |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **seek** | to-infinitive | the prince *not said here* | Ivan |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ivan=Theme |
| 3 | **marvell** | past | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | past · perfect · passive |  | everything |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 6 | **command** | past · perfect · passive |  | the serpent |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: subject=Eventuality |

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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.

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**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.

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