--- title: Koshchei galloped off, caught Prince Ivan, chopped him into little p… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Koshchei galloped off, caught Prince Ivan, chopped him into little pieces, put them in a barrel, smeared it with pitch and bound it with iron hoops, and flung it into the blue sea. Who acts: Koshchei. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOL --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/22/140/) [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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/22/) / 140 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 140 Koshchei galloped off, caught Prince Ivan, chopped him into little pieces, put them in a barrel, smeared it with pitch and bound it with iron hoops, and flung it into the blue sea. **Who acts:** Koshchei · **What happens:** gallop off, catch, chop, put, smear, bind · **To what, where:** Prince Ivan, Koshchei, little pieces, Ivan, barrel, blue sea This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (Koshchei), 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:pg22373:22:140 # text = Koshchei galloped off, caught Prince Ivan, chopped him into little pieces, put them in a barrel, smeared it with pitch and bound it with iron hoops, and flung it into the blue sea. 1 Koshchei Koshchei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 galloped gallop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 off off ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Ivan Ivan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 chopped chop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 barrel barrel NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 smeared smear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 pitch pitch NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 bound bind VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 hoops hoop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 flung fling VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 into into ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gallop off** | past | Koshchei | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **catch** | past | Koshchei *not said here* | Prince Ivan | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ivan=Theme | | 3 | **chop** | past | Koshchei *not said here* | Koshchei | | | | into little pieces *result* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into piece=Result | | 4 | **put** | infinitive | Koshchei *not said here* | Ivan | | a barrel | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in barrel=Destination | | 5 | **smear** | past | | barrel | | | | with pitch | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with pitch=Theme | | 6 | **bind** | past | | barrel | | | | with iron hoops | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient with hoop=Co-Patient | | 7 | **fling** | past | Koshchei *not said here* | barrel | | the blue sea | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme into sea=Destination | 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 139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/22/139/) - next →: [sentence 141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/22/141/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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