--- title: While the witch was climbing and clambering, Prince Ivan rode and ro… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: While the witch was climbing and clambering, Prince Ivan rode and rode, and found himself a long way ahead. Who acts: witch, Prince. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/33/4/) [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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/33/) / 4 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 4 While the witch was climbing and clambering, Prince Ivan rode and rode, and found himself a long way ahead. **Who acts:** witch, Prince · **What happens:** climb, clamber, ride, find · **To what, where:** Prince This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, Prince), 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:pg22373:33:4 # text = While the witch was climbing and clambering, Prince Ivan rode and rode, and found himself a long way ahead. 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 climbing climb VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 clambering clamber VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 9 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 Ivan Ivan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 11 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 17 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 16 obj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 ahead ahead ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **climb** | past · progressive | the witch | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **clamber** | gerund | the witch *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **ride** | past | Prince | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **ride** | past | Prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **find** | past | Prince *not said here* | Prince | | | | a long way *obl:unmarked* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | 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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/33/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/33/5/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/33/)