--- title: So the apprentice took the hen, looked, and under the right wing he… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So the apprentice took the hen, looked, and under the right wing he saw written in gold: “Whoever eats this hen’s head shall become a king, and whoever eats her liver shall spit out gold.” Who acts: apprentice, Whoever, head, liver. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, par --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/7/104/) [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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/7/) / 104 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 104 So the apprentice took the hen, looked, and under the right wing he saw written in gold: “Whoever eats this hen’s head shall become a king, and whoever eats her liver shall spit out gold.” **Who acts:** apprentice, Whoever, head, liver · **What happens:** take, look, write, eat, become, spit out · **To what, where:** hen, youth, right wing, king, gold · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apprentice, Whoever, head, liver), 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:pg62509:7:104 # text = So the apprentice took the hen, looked, and under the right wing he saw written in gold: “Whoever eats this hen’s head shall become a king, and whoever eats her liver shall spit out gold.” 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 apprentice apprentice NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 11 under under ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 “ " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Whoever whoever PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 det _ _ 25 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ’s 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 whoever whoever PRON WP PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 36 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 liver liver NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 38 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 spit spit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 ccomp _ _ 40 out out ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 41 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ” " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | the apprentice | the hen | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent hen=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **look** | past | the apprentice *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **write** | past · passive | | youth | | the right wing | | in gold | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in gold=Destination | | 4 | **eat** *in a quote* | present | Whoever | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **become** *in a quote* | shall | this hen's head | a king | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **eat** *in a quote* | present | whoever | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **spit out** *in a quote* | shall | hen's liver | gold | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=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 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/7/103/) - next →: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/7/105/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/7/)