--- title: Then his lackey crept up to him, unfastened the self-slicing sword f… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then his lackey crept up to him, unfastened the self-slicing sword from his side, went up to the little Tsar, and said, "Self-slicing sword! slay him!" Who acts: lackey. 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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 (lackey), 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:pg29672:6:74 # text = Then his lackey crept up to him, unfastened the self-slicing sword from his side, went up to the little Tsar, and said, "Self-slicing sword! slay him!" 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 lackey lackey NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 unfastened unfasten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 11 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 slicing slice VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 amod _ _ 14 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 Tsar Tsar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 Self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 slicing slice VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 ccomp _ _ 33 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ! ! PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ _ 35 slay slay VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 32 parataxis _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ! ! PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **creep up** | past | Tsar's lackey | | Tsar | | then | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to he=Destination | | 2 | **unfasten** | participle | Tsar's lackey *not said here* | the slicing sword | | | | from Tsar's side | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sword=Patient from side=Co-Patient | | 3 | **slice** | gerund | | | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **go up** | past | Tsar's lackey *not said here* | | | | | to the little Tsar | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Tsar's lackey *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **slice** *in a quote* | gerund | | sword | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient | | 7 | **slay** *in a quote* | infinitive | | Tsar | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/6/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/6/75/) - ↑ back to [The Voices At the Window, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/6/)