--- title: But the moment the dragon appeared and opened his mouth to devour th… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But the moment the dragon appeared and opened his mouth to devour the Tsarivna, the little Tsar cried to his self-slicing sword, "Fall upon him!" and to his beasts he cried, "Protius! Who acts: moment, little Tsar, Tsar. 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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 (moment, little Tsar, Tsar), 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:pg29672:6:63 # text = But the moment the dragon appeared and opened his mouth to devour the Tsarivna, the little Tsar cried to his self-slicing sword, "Fall upon him!" and to his beasts he cried, "Protius! 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 devour devour VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Tsarivna Tsarivna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 Tsar Tsar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 22 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 slicing slice VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 amod _ _ 25 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 Fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 parataxis _ _ 29 upon upon ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ! ! PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 " " PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 Protius Protius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appear** | past | the moment | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **open** | past | the moment *not said here* | Tsar's mouth | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | | 3 | **devour** | to-infinitive | the moment *not said here* | the Tsarivna | | | | | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsarivna=Patient | | 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the little Tsar | the Tsarivna *not said here* | | | | to Tsar's slicing sword | tree rules | | 5 | **slice** | gerund | | | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **fall** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | upon Tsar | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location | | 7 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Tsar | Protius | Tsar's beasts | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to beast=Recipient | 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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/6/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/6/64/) - ↑ back to [The Voices At the Window, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/6/)