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title: ‘Oh, Prince Ivan! why did you disobey me and go looking into the clo… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh, Prince Ivan! why did you disobey me and go looking into the closet and letting out Koshchei the Deathless?’ Who acts: Prince Ivan. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 111

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‘Oh, Prince Ivan! why did you disobey me and go looking into the closet and letting out Koshchei the Deathless?’

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**Who acts:** Prince Ivan · **What happens:** disobey, go, look, let out · **To what, where:** me, Koshchei

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince Ivan), 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:pg540:7:111
# text = ‘Oh, Prince Ivan! why did you disobey me and go looking into the closet and letting out Koshchei the Deathless?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	disobey	disobey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
14	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	closet	closet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	letting	let	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	conj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Deathless	Deathless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disobey** | past · do-support | Prince Ivan | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | Prince Ivan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | Prince Ivan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the closet | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into closet=Theme |
| 4 | **let out** | gerund | Prince Ivan *not said here* | Koshchei |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent koshchei=Theme |

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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:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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