--- title: They all greeted each other, and rode on together, till they came to… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: They all greeted each other, and rode on together, till they came to an iron rock[114] a hundred and fifty poods in weight, and on it was this inscription, "Whosoever will fling this rock against the mountain, to him will a way be opened." Who acts: brothers, weight. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tal --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/27/) [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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/) / 27 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 27 They all greeted each other, and rode on together, till they came to an iron rock\[114\] a hundred and fifty poods in weight, and on it was this inscription, "Whosoever will fling this rock against the mountain, to him will a way be opened." **Who acts:** brothers, weight · **What happens:** greet, ride, come, be, fling, open · **To what, where:** each, hundred poods, iron rock, inscription, Whosoever, Ivan · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, weight), 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:pg22373:24:27 # text = They all greeted each other, and rode on together, till they came to an iron rock[114] a hundred and fifty poods in weight, and on it was this inscription, "Whosoever will fling this rock against the mountain, to him will a way be opened." 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 advmod _ _ 3 greeted greet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 3 obj _ _ 5 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 together together ADV RB _ 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 till till SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 114 114 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 conj _ _ 26 poods pood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 det _ _ 35 inscription inscription NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 Whosoever whosoever PRON WP PronType=Rel 40 obj _ _ 39 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 fling fling VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 41 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 42 det _ _ 42 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 against against ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj:pass _ _ 49 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 53 aux _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nsubj:pass _ _ 52 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 53 aux:pass _ _ 53 opened open VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past | brothers *= brother* | each | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme | | 2 | **ride** | past | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come** | past | brothers *= brother* | hundred poods in weight | | a iron rock | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to rock=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **is** | past | weight | | | this inscription | | | tree rules | | 5 | **fling** *in a quote* | future | weight *not said here* | Whosoever | | | | against the mountain | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent whosoever=Destination rock=Theme | | 6 | **open** *in a quote* | future · passive | | Ivan | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/28/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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