--- title: He travelled one day, he travelled two days; at daybreak on the thir… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: He travelled one day, he travelled two days; at daybreak on the third day he saw a palace grander than the first two, and near the palace stood an oak, and on the oak sat a raven. Who acts: God. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/22/83/) [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/) / 83 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 83 He travelled one day, he travelled two days; at daybreak on the third day he saw a palace grander than the first two, and near the palace stood an oak, and on the oak sat a raven. **Who acts:** God · **What happens:** travel, see, stand, sit · **To what, where:** palace, daybreak, oak, raven 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 (God), 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:pg22373:22:83 # text = He travelled one day, he travelled two days; at daybreak on the third day he saw a palace grander than the first two, and near the palace stood an oak, and on the oak sat a raven. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 travelled travel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 travelled travel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 daybreak daybreak NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 16 amod _ _ 16 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 grander grand ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 amod _ _ 22 than than ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 25 amod _ _ 25 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 near near ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 31 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 32 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 oak oak NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 oak oak NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 39 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 raven raven NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **travel** | past | God | | | | day | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **travel** | past | God | | | | day | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **see** | past | God | a palace | | daybreak on the third day | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus | | 4 | **stand** | past | God *not said here* | a oak | | the palace | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent oak=Theme near palace=Destination | | 5 | **sit** | past | God *not said here* | a raven | | the oak | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent raven=Theme on oak=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 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/22/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/22/84/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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