--- title: And when the Prince came to the blue sea, he looked--there slept Nor… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: And when the Prince came to the blue sea, he looked--there slept Norka on a stone in the middle of the sea; and when it snored, the water was agitated for seven versts around. Who acts: Prince, sea. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOG --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/20/105/) [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 II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/20/) / 105 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 105 And when the Prince came to the blue sea, he looked--there slept Norka on a stone in the middle of the sea; and when it snored, the water was agitated for seven versts around. **Who acts:** Prince, sea · **What happens:** come, look, sleep, snore, agitate · **To what, where:** blue sea, Norka, stone, water This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, sea), 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:pg22373:20:105 # text = And when the Prince came to the blue sea, he looked--there slept Norka on a stone in the middle of the sea; and when it snored, the water was agitated for seven versts around. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 2 when when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 13 -- -- PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 15 expl _ _ 15 slept sleep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 16 Norka Norka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 28 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 snored snore VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 agitated agitate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 versts verst NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 39 around around ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the Prince | | | the blue sea | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **look** | past | Prince | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **sleep** | past | Prince *not said here* | Norka | | a stone in the middle of the sea; there | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent norka=Theme | | 4 | **snore** | past | sea | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **agitate** | past · passive | | the water | | | | for seven versts; around *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | 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 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/20/104/) - next →: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/20/106/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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