--- title: He got ready for the journey, he rode and rode, and one day he saw a… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: He got ready for the journey, he rode and rode, and one day he saw a whole army lying dead on the plain. Who acts: Anna, whole army. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/22/36/) [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/) / 36 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 36 He got ready for the journey, he rode and rode, and one day he saw a whole army lying dead on the plain. **Who acts:** Anna, whole army · **What happens:** get, ride, see, lie · **To what, where:** whole army, plain 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 (Anna, whole army), 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:pg22373:22:36 # text = He got ready for the journey, he rode and rode, and one day he saw a whole army lying dead on the plain. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 acl _ _ 22 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 plain plain NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | Anna | | | | | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **ride** | past | Anna | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **ride** | past | Anna *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **see** | past | Anna | a whole army | | | day | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer army=Stimulus | | 5 | **lie** | gerund | a whole army *not said here* | | | the plain | | dead *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on plain=Location | 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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/22/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/22/37/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/22/)