--- title: Only see him mount his flying steed, give his cap a cock, and stick… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Only see him mount his flying steed, give his cap a cock, and stick his elbows akimbo! why, you'd say he was a king, a born king! you'd never suspect he once was only Vanyusha. Who acts: you, Vanya. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Vanya), 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:pg22373:45:85 # text = Only see him mount his flying steed, give his cap a cock, and stick his elbows akimbo! why, you'd say he was a king, a born king! you'd never suspect he once was only Vanyusha. 1 Only only ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 see see VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 mount mount VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 amod _ _ 7 steed steed NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 stick stick VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 elbows elbow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 compound _ _ 19 akimbo akimbo NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ! ! PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ 21 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 parataxis _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 amod _ _ 33 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ! ! PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 38 suspect suspect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 43 advmod _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 42 only only ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 Vanyusha Vanyusha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* | Vanya | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mount** | infinitive | Vanya *not said here* | Vanya's flying steed | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient | | 3 | **fly** | gerund | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **give** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Vanya's cap | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent cap=Recipient cock=Theme | | 5 | **stick** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Vanya's elbows akimbo | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent akimbo=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **is a** | past | Vanya | a king and a born king | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **bear** | participle | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **not** **suspect** | would | you | Vanya | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute | | 10 | **is a** | past | | Vanyusha | | | | once *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 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/45/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/45/86/) - ↑ back to [Magic and Witchcraft., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/45/)