--- title: The boat floated to the shore: the woman took the fish, gave her boy… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: The boat floated to the shore: the woman took the fish, gave her boy food and drink, changed his shirt for him and his girdle, and sent him back to his fishing. Who acts: boat, woman, Ivashko. 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/pg22373/31/119/) [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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/31/) / 119 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 119 The boat floated to the shore: the woman took the fish, gave her boy food and drink, changed his shirt for him and his girdle, and sent him back to his fishing. **Who acts:** boat, woman, Ivashko · **What happens:** float, take, give, change, send back, fish · **To what, where:** shore, fish, boy food, woman, shirt, Ivashko This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boat, woman, Ivashko), 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:pg22373:31:119 # text = The boat floated to the shore: the woman took the fish, gave her boy food and drink, changed his shirt for him and his girdle, and sent him back to his fishing. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 floated float VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 shirt shirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 girdle girdle NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 back back ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 fishing fishing NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **float** | past | the boat | | | the shore | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination | | 2 | **take** | past | the woman | | the fish | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fish=Destination | | 3 | **give** | past | the woman *not said here* | boy food and drink | woman | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient food=Theme | | 4 | **change** | past | the woman *not said here* | Ivashko's shirt | | | | for Ivashko | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme for he=Co-Theme | | 5 | **send back** | past | the woman *not said here* | Ivashko | | Ivashko's fishing | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to fishing=Destination | | 6 | **fish** | | Ivashko | | | | | | nom fishing «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/31/118/) - next →: [sentence 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/31/120/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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