--- title: Then he takes to boasting, and says, "People talk about the Smorodin… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Then he takes to boasting, and says, "People talk about the Smorodina, saying that no one can cross it whether on foot or on horseback--but it is no better than a pool of rain-water!" Who acts: youth, People, one, Smorodina. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-l --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/39/24/) [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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/39/) / 24 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 24 Then he takes to boasting, and says, "People talk about the Smorodina, saying that no one can cross it whether on foot or on horseback--but it is no better than a pool of rain-water!" **Who acts:** youth, People, one, Smorodina · **What happens:** take, say, talk, cross, not be · **To what, where:** Smorodina · **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 (youth, People, one, Smorodina), 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:pg22373:39:24 # text = Then he takes to boasting, and says, "People talk about the Smorodina, saying that no one can cross it whether on foot or on horseback--but it is no better than a pool of rain-water!" 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 boasting boasting NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 13 about about ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Smorodina Smorodina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 19 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 20 det _ _ 20 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 cross cross VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 horseback horseback NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 -- -- PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 no no ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 parataxis _ _ 36 than than ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ! ! PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present | youth | | | | then | to boasting | vn require-103 «NP V that S»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | present | youth *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **talk** *in a quote* | present | People | | | | | about the Smorodina | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about smorodina=Topic | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | gerund | People *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **cross** *in a quote* | can | no one | Smorodina | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | Smorodina | | | | | than a pool of rain water; good *property* | tree rules | 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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/39/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/39/25/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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