--- title: On his way home the poor man meets an old stranger and tells him his… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: On his way home the poor man meets an old stranger and tells him his story--how he had taken his brother a fish and had got nothing in return but a "thank ye." Who acts: poor man, man. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/36/178/) [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/) / 178 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 178 On his way home the poor man meets an old stranger and tells him his story--how he had taken his brother a fish and had got nothing in return but a "thank ye." **Who acts:** poor man, man · **What happens:** meet, tell, take, get, thank · **To what, where:** old stranger, way, story, man, brother, nothing · **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 (poor man, man), 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:pg22373:36:178 # text = On his way home the poor man meets an old stranger and tells him his story--how he had taken his brother a fish and had got nothing in return but a "thank ye." 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 home home ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 meets meet VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 -- -- PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 parataxis _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 conj _ _ 29 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 28 obj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 return return NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 36 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** | present | the poor man | a old stranger | | man's way | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Co-Agent | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the poor man *not said here* | man's story | man | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic | | 3 | **take** | past · perfect | man | man's brother | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument brother=Theme fish=Destination | | 4 | **get** | past · perfect | man *not said here* | nothing | | return | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | | 5 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | man *not said here* | ye | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=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 177](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/36/177/) - next →: [sentence 179](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/36/179/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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