---
title: So they all put on their best clothes, and the elder sister went to… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So they all put on their best clothes, and the elder sister went to her bedside, moved the bed, and an entrance into the subterranean realm instantly opened up beneath, leading to the home of the Accursèd Tsar. Who acts: sisters, elder sister, entrance. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Af
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/14/2/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/14/) / 2

# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 2

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
So they all put on their best clothes, and the elder sister went to her bedside, moved the bed, and an entrance into the subterranean realm instantly opened up beneath, leading to the home of the Accursèd Tsar.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** sisters, elder sister, entrance · **What happens:** put, go, move, open up, lead · **To what, where:** best clothes, bedside, bed

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, elder sister, entrance), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:14:2
# text = So they all put on their best clothes, and the elder sister went to her bedside, moved the bed, and an entrance into the subterranean realm instantly opened up beneath, leading to the home of the Accursèd Tsar.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	bedside	bedside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	subterranean	subterranean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	beneath	beneath	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	Accursèd	Accursèd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | present | sisters *= sister* |  |  | sisters's best clothes |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination |
| 2 | **go** | past | the elder sister |  |  | her bedside |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bedside=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **move** | past | the elder sister *not said here* | the bed |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bed=Theme |
| 4 | **open up** | past | a entrance into the subterranean realm |  |  |  |  | beneath, instantly *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lead** | gerund | a entrance into the subterranean realm *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the home of the Accursèd Tsar | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to home=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/14/1/)
- next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/14/3/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/14/)