--- title: This did not suit the King at all, so he answered the Arab prince in… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: This did not suit the King at all, so he answered the Arab prince in this wise, “Do you begin the war, and it shall go as God shall will.” Who acts: This, King, Arab prince, war. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/28/105/) [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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/28/) / 105 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 105 This did not suit the King at all, so he answered the Arab prince in this wise, “Do you begin the war, and it shall go as God shall will.” **Who acts:** This, King, Arab prince, war · **What happens:** not suit, answer, begin, go · **To what, where:** King, all, Arab prince, wise, war · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, King, Arab prince, war), 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:pg62509:28:105 # text = This did not suit the King at all, so he answered the Arab prince in this wise, “Do you begin the war, and it shall go as God shall will.” 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 nsubj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 suit suit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 Arab Arab ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 nsubj _ _ 18 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 “ " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 begin begin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 31 as as ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 33 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **suit** | past · do-support | This | the King | | all | | | tree rules | | 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | King | | the Arab prince | wise this | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality | | 3 | **begin** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the Arab prince *= prince* | the war | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | shall | war | | | | | as God | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/28/104/) - next →: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/28/106/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/28/)