--- title: Your Bird of Light flew into the garden every night and stole the go… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Your Bird of Light flew into the garden every night and stole the golden apples from the apple-tree my father loved, and for that reason my father sent me to seek the Bird of Light and to take it to him.” Who acts: Bird, father. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bird, father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:10:107 # text = Your Bird of Light flew into the garden every night and stole the golden apples from the apple-tree my father loved, and for that reason my father sent me to seek the Bird of Light and to take it to him.” 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 Bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 stole steal VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 apples apple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 21 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 28 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 32 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | past | Your Bird of Light | | | | night | into the garden *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into garden=Result | | 2 | **steal** | past | Your Bird of Light *not said here* | the golden apples | | the apple tree | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent apple=Theme from tree=Source | | 3 | **love** | past | my father | the apple tree *not said here* | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | | 4 | **send** | past | my father | me | | | | for that reason | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 5 | **seek** | to-infinitive | my father *not said here* | the Bird of Light | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | | 6 | **take** | to-infinitive | my father *not said here* | BIRD | father | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Destination | 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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/10/106/) - next →: [sentence 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/10/108/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/10/)