--- title: So go and ask your father for the best horse he has--as if you wante… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: So go and ask your father for the best horse he has--as if you wanted a gallop--and then, if you want to be out of harm's way, ride away whithersoever your eyes guide you." Who acts: you, horse, eyes. 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/pg22373/32/76/) [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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/) / 76 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 76 So go and ask your father for the best horse he has--as if you wanted a gallop--and then, if you want to be out of harm's way, ride away whithersoever your eyes guide you." **Who acts:** you, horse, eyes · **What happens:** go, ask, have, want, be, ride away · **To what, where:** father, best horse, gallop, way, you This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, horse, eyes), 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:pg22373:32:76 # text = So go and ask your father for the best horse he has--as if you wanted a gallop--and then, if you want to be out of harm's way, ride away whithersoever your eyes guide you." 1 So so ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 amod _ _ 10 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 -- -- PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 gallop gallop NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 -- -- PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 22 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 29 out out ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 32 's 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 35 ride ride VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 36 away away ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 whithersoever whithersoever ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 40 guide guide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | your father | | | for the best horse | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient | | 3 | **have** | present | horse | the best horse *not said here* | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | | 4 | **want** | past | you | a gallop | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gallop=Theme | | 5 | **want** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | harm's way | | | tree rules | | 7 | **ride away** | infinitive | | | | | then | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **guide** | present | your eyes | you | | | | whithersoever *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/75/) - next →: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/77/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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