--- title: Well, it happened one day that Elijah and Nicholas were walking over… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Well, it happened one day that Elijah and Nicholas were walking over the land belonging to this Moujik; and as they walked they looked--in the cornfields the green blades were growing up so splendidly that it did one's heart good to look at them. Who acts: it, Elijah, land, green blades. A sentence --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/57/75/) [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/) / 75 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 75 Well, it happened one day that Elijah and Nicholas were walking over the land belonging to this Moujik; and as they walked they looked--in the cornfields the green blades were growing up so splendidly that it did one's heart good to look at them. **Who acts:** it, Elijah, land, green blades · **What happens:** happen, walk, belong, look, grow up · **To what, where:** one day, land, cornfields 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 (it, Elijah, land, green blades), 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:pg22373:57:75 # text = Well, it happened one day that Elijah and Nicholas were walking over the land belonging to this Moujik; and as they walked they looked--in the cornfields the green blades were growing up so splendidly that it did one's heart good to look at them. 1 Well well INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 8 Elijah Elijah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 Nicholas Nicholas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 walking walk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 13 over over ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 belonging belong VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 Moujik Moujik PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 -- -- PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 cornfields cornfield NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 blades blade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 34 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 acl _ _ 36 up up ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 splendidly splendidly ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 39 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 42 one one PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 43 's 's PART POS _ 42 case _ _ 44 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 45 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 47 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 48 at at ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | it | | | | day | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **walk** | past · progressive | Elijah and Nicholas | one day *not said here* | | the land | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent day=Theme over land=Trajectory | | 3 | **belong** | gerund | the land *not said here* | | | | | to this Moujik | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **walk** | past | Elijah | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **look** | past | Elijah | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **grow up** | past · progressive | the green blades | the cornfields *not said here* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cornfield=Theme | | 7 | **look** | past · do-support | Elijah *not said here* | | | | | at Elijah; splendidly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/57/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/57/76/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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