--- title: Well, next day the Prophet Elijah and St. Nicholas were walking alon… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Well, next day the Prophet Elijah and St. Nicholas were walking along together in the guise of wayfarers, and they met the Moujik, who was carrying two wax tapers--one, a big rouble one, and the other, a tiny copeck one. Who acts: Prophet Elijah, Elijah, Moujik, one. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tal --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/58/19/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/58/) / 19 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 19 Well, next day the Prophet Elijah and St. Nicholas were walking along together in the guise of wayfarers, and they met the Moujik, who was carrying two wax tapers--one, a big rouble one, and the other, a tiny copeck one. **Who acts:** Prophet Elijah, Elijah, Moujik, one · **What happens:** walk, meet, carry, rouble · **To what, where:** guise, Moujik, two wax tapers This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prophet Elijah, Elijah, Moujik, one), 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:pg22373:58:19 # text = Well, next day the Prophet Elijah and St. Nicholas were walking along together in the guise of wayfarers, and they met the Moujik, who was carrying two wax tapers--one, a big rouble one, and the other, a tiny copeck one. 1 Well well INTJ UH _ 12 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Prophet Prophet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Elijah Elijah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 St. St. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:desc _ _ 10 Nicholas Nicholas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 13 along along ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 together together ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 guise guise NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 wayfarers wayfarer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Moujik Moujik PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 carrying carry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 30 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 31 wax wax NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 tapers taper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 -- -- PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 rouble rouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 39 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 46 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 47 copeck copeck NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | past · progressive | the Prophet Elijah and Nicholas St. | | | the guise of wayfarers | day | along, together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in guise=Trajectory | | 2 | **meet** | past | Elijah | the Moujik | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moujik=Co-Agent | | 3 | **carry** | past · progressive | the Moujik | two wax tapers | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taper=Theme | | 4 | **rouble** | | one | | | | | | 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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/58/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/58/20/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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