--- title: Thereupon Kruchina replied, "I will not give you back your crust, bu… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Thereupon Kruchina replied, "I will not give you back your crust, but in return for it I will make you a present of a duck which will lay a golden egg every day," and kept his word. Who acts: Kruchina, duck. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/36/173/) [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 III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/36/) / 173 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 173 Thereupon Kruchina replied, "I will not give you back your crust, but in return for it I will make you a present of a duck which will lay a golden egg every day," and kept his word. **Who acts:** Kruchina, duck · **What happens:** reply, not give back, make, lay, keep, word · **To what, where:** crust, you, present, return, golden egg, word · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kruchina, duck), 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:pg22373:36:173 # text = Thereupon Kruchina replied, "I will not give you back your crust, but in return for it I will make you a present of a duck which will lay a golden egg every day," and kept his word. 1 Thereupon thereupon ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 Kruchina Kruchina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 iobj _ _ 11 back back ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 12 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 crust crust NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 return return NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nmod _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 duck duck NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 30 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 acl:relcl _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 36 det _ _ 36 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Kruchina | | | | | thereupon *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **give back** *in a quote* | future | Kruchina | your crust | you | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient crust=Theme | | 3 | **make** *in a quote* | future | Kruchina | a present of a duck | you | return for crust | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary present=Product | | 4 | **lay** *in a quote* | future | a duck | a golden egg | | | day | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 5 | **keep** | past | Kruchina *not said here* | Kruchina's word | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 6 | **word** | | Kruchina | | | | | | nom word «communication 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 172](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/36/172/) - next →: [sentence 174](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/36/174/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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