--- title: Now he happened to be sailing one day along the Danube, going with w… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Now he happened to be sailing one day along the Danube, going with wares from one place to another, when all of a sudden a storm arose, and was on the point of sinking the ship he was in. Who acts: Russian, all, point. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/14/7/) [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/) / 7 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 7 Now he happened to be sailing one day along the Danube, going with wares from one place to another, when all of a sudden a storm arose, and was on the point of sinking the ship he was in. **Who acts:** Russian, all, point · **What happens:** happen, sail, go, arise, be, sink · **To what, where:** Danube, one place, point, ship 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 (Russian, all, point), 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:pg22373:14:7 # text = Now he happened to be sailing one day along the Danube, going with wares from one place to another, when all of a sudden a storm arose, and was on the point of sinking the ship he was in. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 aux _ _ 6 sailing sail VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 7 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 along along ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Danube Danube PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 wares ware NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 22 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 23 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 29 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 nmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 arose arise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 parataxis _ _ 36 of of SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 37 sinking sink VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 acl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 42 in in ADV RB _ 39 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | Russian | | | | now | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sail** | to-infinitive · progressive | Russian *not said here* | | | the Danube | day | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along danube=Trajectory | | 3 | **go** | gerund | Russian *not said here* | | | one place to another | | with wares | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from place=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **arise** | past | all | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | past | | | | the point | | | tree rules | | 6 | **sink** | gerund | the point *not said here* | the ship | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ship=Patient | | 7 | **is** | past | Russian | the ship *not said here* | | | | in *property* | tree rules | 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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/14/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/14/8/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. 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