--- title: Early in the morning they all arose, and the prince went to the serp… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Early in the morning they all arose, and the prince went to the serpent's house to greet them all, and there he saw twenty of the serpent's daughters, but where was the twenty-first? Who acts: guests, prince. 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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 (guests, prince), 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:pg29672:26:79 # text = Early in the morning they all arose, and the prince went to the serpent's house to greet them all, and there he saw twenty of the serpent's daughters, but where was the twenty-first? 1 Early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 7 arose arise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 serpent serpent NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 greet greet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 20 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 26 expl _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 27 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 serpent serpent NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 7 conj _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arise** | past | guests *= guest* | | | | morning | early *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **go** | past | the prince | | | the serpent's house | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **greet** *speech: greet* | to-infinitive | the prince *not said here* | | guests *= guest* | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **see** | past | prince | twenty of the serpent's daughters | | there | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer twenty=Stimulus | | 5 | **is** | past | guests *= guest* *not said here* | | | | | where *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 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/26/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/26/80/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/26/)