--- title: “Your Imperial Majesty,” quoth he, “please let me spend one night in… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Your Imperial Majesty,” quoth he, “please let me spend one night in your empty palace!” Who acts: Imperial Majesty, master. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/12/148/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/12/) / 148 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 148 “Your Imperial Majesty,” quoth he, “please let me spend one night in your empty palace!” **Who acts:** Imperial Majesty, master · **What happens:** quoth, let, spend · **To what, where:** assemblage, master, empty palace This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Imperial Majesty, master), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:12:148 # text = “Your Imperial Majesty,” quoth he, “please let me spend one night in your empty palace!” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 Imperial imperial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 Majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 quoth quoth VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 “ " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 please please INTJ UH _ 12 discourse _ _ 12 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 spend spend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ! ! PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ” " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **quoth** | present | Your Imperial Majesty | assemblage | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | Your Imperial Majesty *not said here* | the master *= master* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **spend** *in a quote* | infinitive | the master *= master* *not said here* | | | your empty palace | night | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:** «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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 147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/12/147/) - next →: [sentence 149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/12/149/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/12/)