--- title: To an enquiry about the way, he replies, "You have only to go along… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: To an enquiry about the way, he replies, "You have only to go along yonder path and say, 'Grant thy blessing, O Lord!' and you will come to where I am." Who acts: beggar, You, thy. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/57/11/) [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 VI. LEGENDS, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/57/) / 11 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 11 To an enquiry about the way, he replies, "You have only to go along yonder path and say, 'Grant thy blessing, O Lord!' and you will come to where I am." **Who acts:** beggar, You, thy · **What happens:** reply, have, go along, say, come, bless · **To what, where:** path, Grant blessing · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (beggar, You, thy), 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:pg22373:57:11 # text = To an enquiry about the way, he replies, "You have only to go along yonder path and say, 'Grant thy blessing, O Lord!' and you will come to where I am." 1 To to ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 enquiry enquiry NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 replies reply VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 14 only only ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 17 along along ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 yonder yonder ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 Grant grant NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 blessing blessing NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 O o INTJ UH _ 29 discourse _ _ 29 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ! ! PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 35 obl _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: express* | present | beggar | | | | | to a enquiry about the way | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to enquiry=Theme | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | You | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go along** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | path | | | | along *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | You *not said here* | thy Grant blessing | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent blessing=Topic | | 5 | **come** *in a quote* | future | you | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to where=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **bless** *in a quote* | | thy | | | | | | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/57/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/57/12/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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