--- title: Then they sat down and ate, and when the meal was over the serpent s… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then they sat down and ate, and when the meal was over the serpent said, "Well, prince, after dinner I'll bring all my daughters into the courtyard, and if you can find out the youngest, you may be happy together." Who acts: daughters, meal, serpent, you. 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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 (daughters, meal, serpent, you), 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:pg29672:26:106 # text = Then they sat down and ate, and when the meal was over the serpent said, "Well, prince, after dinner I'll bring all my daughters into the courtyard, and if you can find out the youngest, you may be happy together." 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 down down ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 over over ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 serpent serpent NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 Well well INTJ UH _ 21 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 after after ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 28 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 30 det:predet _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 courtyard courtyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 36 if if SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 40 out out ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 45 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 46 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 47 cop _ _ 47 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 48 together together ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit down** | past | daughters *= daughter* | | | | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | past | daughters *= daughter* *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | the meal | | | the serpent | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the serpent | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **bring** *in a quote* | future | the serpent *= serpent* | my daughters | | the courtyard | after dinner | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme into courtyard=Destination | | 6 | **find out** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | can | you | the youngest | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Topic | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | may | you | | | | | happy, together *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 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/26/105/) - next →: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/26/107/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/26/)