--- title: After this the King took the youth unto himself, and he lived at the… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: After this the King took the youth unto himself, and he lived at the royal court and received the greatest kindness and honour, grew up and became a youth of youths, married the Princess, and received half of the kingdom as a dowry. Who acts: King, Crow. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. A --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/6/111/) [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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/6/) / 111 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 111 After this the King took the youth unto himself, and he lived at the royal court and received the greatest kindness and honour, grew up and became a youth of youths, married the Princess, and received half of the kingdom as a dowry. **Who acts:** King, Crow · **What happens:** take, live, receive, grow up, become, marry · **To what, where:** youth, royal court, greatest kindness, Princess, half This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Crow), 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:pg62509:6:111 # text = After this the King took the youth unto himself, and he lived at the royal court and received the greatest kindness and honour, grew up and became a youth of youths, married the Princess, and received half of the kingdom as a dowry. 1 After after ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 unto unto ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 received receive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 amod _ _ 22 kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 xcomp _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 youths youth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 married marry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 received receive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 41 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 40 obj _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 45 as as ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 dowry dowry NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | the King | the youth | | | after this | unto Crow | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Theme | | 2 | **live** | past | Crow | | | the royal court | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at court=Location | | 3 | **receive** | past | Crow *not said here* | the greatest kindness and honour | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kindness=Theme | | 4 | **grow up** | past | the King *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **become** | past | the King *not said here* | a youth of youths | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **marry** | past | the King *not said here* | the Princess | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | | 7 | **receive** | past | the King *not said here* | half of the kingdom | | | | as a dowry | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=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 110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/6/110/) - next →: [sentence 112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/6/112/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/6/)