--- title: But he took his arms, and went straight into the park, and sat down… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: But he took his arms, and went straight into the park, and sat down on the grass in such a position that, the moment he went asleep, his weapons would prick him, and he would awake. Who acts: son, moment. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MY --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/20/51/) [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/) / 51 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 51 But he took his arms, and went straight into the park, and sat down on the grass in such a position that, the moment he went asleep, his weapons would prick him, and he would awake. **Who acts:** son, moment · **What happens:** take, go, sit down, prick, awake · **To what, where:** arms, park, grass, moment, position 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 (son, moment), 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:pg22373:20:51 # text = But he took his arms, and went straight into the park, and sat down on the grass in such a position that, the moment he went asleep, his weapons would prick him, and he would awake. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 straight straight ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 down down ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 23 det:predet _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 position position NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 weapons weapon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 34 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 prick prick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl:relcl _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 awake awake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | son | son's arms | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | | 2 | **go** | past | son *not said here* | | | the park | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into park=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **sit down** | past | son *not said here* | | | the grass | | in such position | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location | | 4 | **go** | past | son | the moment *not said here* | | | | asleep *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location moment=Theme | | 5 | **prick** | would | the moment | such position | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **awake** | would | son | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/20/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/20/52/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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