--- title: These words made the merchant and his wife very angry, so they decid… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: These words made the merchant and his wife very angry, so they decided to get rid of their child; they built a little boat, and in the dark of night, put the sleeping boy into it and let it sail into the open sea. Who acts: words, merchant, boat. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, merchant, boat), 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:pg62509:6:83 # text = These words made the merchant and his wife very angry, so they decided to get rid of their child; they built a little boat, and in the dark of night, put the sleeping boy into it and let it sail into the open sea. 1 These this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 very very ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 decided decide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 rid rid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 sleeping sleeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 into into ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 sail sail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 xcomp _ _ 45 into into ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | this words | the merchant and word's wife | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset merchant=Product | | 2 | **decide** | past | merchant | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | merchant *not said here* | | | | | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **build** | past | merchant | a little boat | | the dark of night | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset boat=Product | | 5 | **put** | infinitive | merchant *not said here* | | the sleeping boy | dark | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent boy=Goal | | 6 | **let** | infinitive | merchant *not said here* | boat | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **sail** | infinitive | boat *not said here* | | | the open sea | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into sea=Trajectory | 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. 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