--- title: Then the young man ran home and said to his father, "Dad, give me a… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the young man ran home and said to his father, "Dad, give me a silver rouble!"--"Wherefore, my son?"--"I would buy a holy image," said he, and he told his father how he had seen that heathen beating St Michael.--"Nay, my son, whence shall we who are poor find a silver rouble to give to him who --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/30/) [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/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / [The Vampire and St Michael](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/) / 30 # Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 30 Then the young man ran home and said to his father, "Dad, give me a silver rouble!"--"Wherefore, my son?"--"I would buy a holy image," said he, and he told his father how he had seen that heathen beating St Michael.--"Nay, my son, whence shall we who are poor find a silver rouble to give to him who is so rich?"--"Nay, but give it me, dad!" and he begged and prayed till he got it. **Who acts:** young man, man, heathen, we, poor · **What happens:** run, say, give, buy, tell, see · **To what, where:** father, silver rouble, young man, holy image, heathen, Michael · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, man, heathen, we), 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:pg29672:8:30 # text = Then the young man ran home and said to his father, "Dad, give me a silver rouble!"--"Wherefore, my son?"--"I would buy a holy image," said he, and he told his father how he had seen that heathen beating St Michael.--"Nay, my son, whence shall we who are poor find a silver rouble to give to him who is so rich?"--"Nay, but give it me, dad!" and he begged and prayed till he got it. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 home home ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 17 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 iobj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 silver silver ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 rouble rouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ! ! PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 -- -- PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 Wherefore wherefore ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ? ? PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 -- -- PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 holy holy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 image image NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 41 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 45 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 47 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 iobj _ _ 49 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 52 advmod _ _ 50 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 51 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 52 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 46 ccomp _ _ 53 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 54 det _ _ 54 heathen heathen NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ _ 55 beating beat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 54 acl _ _ 56 St St PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 nmod:desc _ _ 57 Michael Michael PROPN NNP Number=Sing 55 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 59 -- -- PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 60 " " PUNCT `` _ 64 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 61 Nay nay INTJ UH _ 64 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 63 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 64 nmod:poss _ _ 64 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 65 , , PUNCT , _ 71 punct _ _ 66 whence whence ADV WRB PronType=Int 71 advmod _ _ 67 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 71 aux _ _ 68 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 71 nsubj _ _ 69 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 71 nsubj _ _ 70 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 71 cop _ _ 71 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 72 nsubj _ _ 72 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 64 acl:relcl _ _ 73 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 75 det _ _ 74 silver silver ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 75 amod _ _ 75 rouble rouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 72 obj _ _ 76 to to PART TO _ 77 mark _ _ 77 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 75 acl _ _ 78 to to ADP IN _ 79 case _ _ 79 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 77 obl _ _ 80 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 83 nsubj _ _ 81 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 83 cop _ _ 82 so so ADV RB _ 83 advmod _ _ 83 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 77 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 84 ? ? PUNCT . _ 83 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 85 " " PUNCT '' _ 83 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 86 -- -- PUNCT , _ 88 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 87 " " PUNCT `` _ 88 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 88 Nay nay INTJ UH _ 77 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 89 , , PUNCT , _ 91 punct _ _ 90 but but CCONJ CC _ 91 cc _ _ 91 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 92 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 91 obj _ _ 93 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 91 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 94 , , PUNCT , _ 95 punct _ _ 95 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 91 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 96 ! ! PUNCT . _ 95 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 97 " " PUNCT '' _ 95 punct _ _ 98 and and CCONJ CC _ 100 cc _ _ 99 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 100 nsubj _ _ 100 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 101 and and CCONJ CC _ 102 cc _ _ 102 prayed pray VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 100 conj _ _ 103 till till SCONJ IN _ 105 mark _ _ 104 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 105 nsubj _ _ 105 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 102 ccomp _ _ 106 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 105 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 107 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | past | the young man | | | | then | home *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the young man *not said here* | | man's father | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | | a silver rouble | the young man *= man* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient rouble=Theme | | 4 | **buy** *in a quote* | would | man | a holy image | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent image=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | man | | man's father | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **see** | past · perfect | man | that heathen | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heathen=Stimulus | | 8 | **beat** | gerund | that heathen *not said here* | Michael St | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location michael=Theme | | 9 | **is** *in a quote* | shall | we | | | | | poor, whence *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **find** *in a quote* | present | poor | a silver rouble | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rouble=Topic | | 11 | **give** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | poor *not said here* | a silver rouble *not said here* | man | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | | 12 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | rich *property* | tree rules | | 13 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | the young man *not said here* | rouble | man | | | | tree rules | | 14 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | man | | | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | | 15 | **pray** | past | man *not said here* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 16 | **get** | past | man | rouble | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | 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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/31/) - ↑ back to [The Vampire and St Michael](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/)