--- title: He walked and walked, and suddenly, goodness knows whence, there app… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: He walked and walked, and suddenly, goodness knows whence, there appeared before him a fine-looking man, who saluted him and said: Who acts: devil, goodness, looking man. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, with its depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/14/104/) [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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/14/) / 104 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 104 He walked and walked, and suddenly, goodness knows whence, there appeared before him a fine-looking man, who saluted him and said: **Who acts:** devil, goodness, looking man · **What happens:** walk, know, appear, look, salute, say · **To what, where:** looking man, devil · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (devil, goodness, looking man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:14:104 # text = He walked and walked, and suddenly, goodness knows whence, there appeared before him a fine-looking man, who saluted him and said: 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 goodness goodness NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 whence whence ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 14 expl _ _ 14 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 before before ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 18 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 amod _ _ 21 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 saluted salute VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | past | devil | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **walk** | past | devil *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **know** | present | goodness | | | | | suddenly, whence *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **appear** | past | devil *not said here* | a looking man | | there | before devil | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location | | 5 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **salute** | past | a looking man | devil | | | | | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a looking man *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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/pg22373/14/103/) - next →: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/14/105/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. 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