--- title: Vanka consents, and carries the turnips to a cottage, wherein is sea… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Vanka consents, and carries the turnips to a cottage, wherein is seated "an old greybeard with horns on his head," who receives him kindly and offers him a quantity of gold as a recompense for his trouble. Who acts: Vanka consents, boy. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/98/) [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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/) / 98 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 98 Vanka consents, and carries the turnips to a cottage, wherein is seated "an old greybeard with horns on his head," who receives him kindly and offers him a quantity of gold as a recompense for his trouble. **Who acts:** Vanka consents, boy · **What happens:** carry, seat, receive, offer, trouble · **To what, where:** turnips, cottage, old greybeard, boy, quantity This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vanka consents, boy), 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:pg22373:61:98 # text = Vanka consents, and carries the turnips to a cottage, wherein is seated "an old greybeard with horns on his head," who receives him kindly and offers him a quantity of gold as a recompense for his trouble. 1 Vanka Vanka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 consents consent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 turnips turnip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 cottage cottage NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 wherein wherein ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 seated seat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl:relcl _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 greybeard greybeard NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 26 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 receives receive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 offers offer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 iobj _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 quantity quantity NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 as as ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 recompense recompense NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 40 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | present | Vanka consents *not said here* | the turnips | | a cottage | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent turnip=Theme to cottage=Destination | | 2 | **seat** | present · passive | | a old greybeard with horns on boy's head | | | | wherein *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP» | | 3 | **receive** | present | | boy | | | | kindly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 4 | **offer** | present | | a quantity of gold | boy | | | as a recompense for boy's trouble | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal quantity=Theme | | 5 | **trouble** | | boy | | | | | | nom trouble «cognition 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 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/97/) - next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/99/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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