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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/39/) / 16 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 16 But one day "when he was fevered with wine, as he sat at the ship's side and musingly regarded the waves, he said: 'Oh, Mother Volga, thou great river! much hast thou given me of gold and of silver, and of all good things; thou hast nursed me, and nourished me, and covered me with glory and honor. **Who acts:** Stenka, thou, much · **What happens:** fever, sit, regard, say, river, have · **To what, where:** Stenka, side, waves, thou · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stenka, thou, much), 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:pg22373:39:16 # text = But one day "when he was fevered with wine, as he sat at the ship's side and musingly regarded the waves, he said: 'Oh, Mother Volga, thou great river! much hast thou given me of gold and of silver, and of all good things; thou hast nursed me, and nourished me, and covered me with glory and honor. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 fevered fever VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 ccomp _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 musingly musingly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 regarded regard VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 28 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 29 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 33 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 Mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 Volga Volga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 37 nsubj _ _ 36 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ! ! PUNCT . _ 39 punct _ _ 39 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 nsubj _ _ 40 hast have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 41 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 40 obj _ _ 42 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 advcl _ _ 43 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 iobj _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 52 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 54 det _ _ 53 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ; ; PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 56 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 58 nsubj:pass _ _ 57 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 58 aux _ _ 58 nursed nurse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 59 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 58 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 61 and and CCONJ CC _ 62 cc _ _ 62 nourished nourish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 63 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 62 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 64 , , PUNCT , _ 66 punct _ _ 65 and and CCONJ CC _ 66 cc _ _ 66 covered cover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 62 conj _ _ 67 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 66 obj _ _ 68 with with ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 69 glory glory NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 obl _ _ 70 and and CCONJ CC _ 71 cc _ _ 71 honor honor NOUN NN Number=Sing 69 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 72 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fever** *in a quote* | past · passive | | Stenka | | | day | with wine | tree rules | | 2 | **sit** *in a quote* | past | Stenka | | | the ship's side | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at side=Location | | 3 | **regard** *in a quote* | past | Stenka *not said here* | the waves | | | | musingly *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | Stenka | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **river** *in a quote* | | thou | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | present | much | thou | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient | | 7 | **give** *in a quote* | participle | much *not said here* | | Stenka | | | of gold and silver | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 8 | **nurse** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | thou | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Theme | | 9 | **nourish** *in a quote* | past | | Stenka | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | | 10 | **cover** *in a quote* | past | | | Stenka | | | with glory and honor | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Destination with glory=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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/39/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/39/17/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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