--- title: The old man climbed up to heaven, slipped in there, walked and walke… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: The old man climbed up to heaven, slipped in there, walked and walked, admired and admired, and said to himself, 'I'll go and fetch the old woman; won't she just be delighted!'" Who acts: old man, I, woman. 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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 (old man, I, woman), 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:pg22373:51:77 # text = The old man climbed up to heaven, slipped in there, walked and walked, admired and admired, and said to himself, 'I'll go and fetch the old woman; won't she just be delighted!'" 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 climbed climb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 slipped slip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 admired admire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 xcomp _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 admired admire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 fetch fetch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 36 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 37 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 38 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 39 just just ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 cop _ _ 41 delighted delighted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ! ! PUNCT . _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **climb up** | past | the old man | | | heaven | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to heaven=Destination | | 2 | **slip** | past | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in there=Attribute | | 3 | **walk** | past | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **walk** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **admire** | participle | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **admire** | participle | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | man | | | | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic | | 8 | **go** | future | I | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **fetch** | infinitive | I *not said here* | the old woman | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | | 10 | **not** **is** | future | woman | | | | | delighted *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 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/78/) - ↑ back to [Ghost Stories., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/)