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title: Prince Ivan arose, slipped into the stable, and lay down behind the… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Ivan arose, slipped into the stable, and lay down behind the mangers, while the Baba Yaga was storming away at her mares and shrieking: Who acts: Prince, Baba Yaga. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 248

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Prince Ivan arose, slipped into the stable, and lay down behind the mangers, while the Baba Yaga was storming away at her mares and shrieking:

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**Who acts:** Prince, Baba Yaga · **What happens:** arise, slip, lay down, storm away · **To what, where:** stable, mangers

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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, Baba Yaga), 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:pg540:7:248
# text = Prince Ivan arose, slipped into the stable, and lay down behind the mangers, while the Baba Yaga was storming away at her mares and shrieking:
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mangers	manager	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	storming	storm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	mares	mare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	shrieking	shrieking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **slip** | past | Prince *not said here* |  |  | the stable |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **lay down** | infinitive | Prince *not said here* |  |  | the mangers |  | down *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent behind manager=Destination |
| 4 | **storm away** | past · progressive | the Baba Yaga |  |  |  |  | at Yaga's mares and shrieking; away *property* | vn weather-57 «It V PP.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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