--- title: There once was a poor little orphan-lad who had nothing at all to li… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: There once was a poor little orphan-lad who had nothing at all to live on; so he went to a rich moujik and hired himself out to him, agreeing to work for one copeck a year. Who acts: poor little orphan lad, lad. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/127/) [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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/) / 127 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 127 There once was a poor little orphan-lad who had nothing at all to live on; so he went to a rich moujik and hired himself out to him, agreeing to work for one copeck a year. **Who acts:** poor little orphan lad, lad · **What happens:** be, have, live on, go, hire out, agree · **To what, where:** nothing, all, rich moujik, lad This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor little orphan lad, lad), 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:pg22373:15:127 # text = There once was a poor little orphan-lad who had nothing at all to live on; so he went to a rich moujik and hired himself out to him, agreeing to work for one copeck a year. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 2 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 3 advmod _ _ 3 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 5 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 7 orphan orphan ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 11 obj _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 12 nmod _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 moujik moujik NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 hired hire VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 28 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 27 obj _ _ 29 out out ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 agreeing agree VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 copeck copeck NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | a poor little orphan lad | | | there | | once *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **have** | past | a poor little orphan lad | nothing | | all | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | | 3 | **live on** | to-infinitive | a poor little orphan lad *not said here* | nothing *not said here* | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **go** | past | lad | | | a rich moujik | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to moujik=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **hire out** | past | lad *not said here* | lad | lad | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | | 6 | **agree** *speech: agree* | gerund | lad *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **work** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | lad *not said here* | | | | year | for one copeck | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for copeck=Beneficiary | 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 126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/126/) - next →: [sentence 128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/128/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. 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