--- title: Then his children, the Tsarévichi, said in a single voice: “Gracious… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then his children, the Tsarévichi, said in a single voice: “Gracious lord, our father, Your Imperial Majesty, we will, with the greatest pleasure, try to catch the Bird of Light alive.” Who acts: children. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10, with its dependency t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/10/64/) [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 Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/10/) / 64 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 64 Then his children, the Tsarévichi, said in a single voice: “Gracious lord, our father, Your Imperial Majesty, we will, with the greatest pleasure, try to catch the Bird of Light alive.” **Who acts:** children · **What happens:** say, try, catch · **To what, where:** single voice, Bird · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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:pg62509:10:64 # text = Then his children, the Tsarévichi, said in a single voice: “Gracious lord, our father, Your Imperial Majesty, we will, with the greatest pleasure, try to catch the Bird of Light alive.” 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Tsarévichi Tsarévichi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 “ " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Gracious gracious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 Imperial imperial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 Majesty Majesty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 31 amod _ _ 31 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 try try VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 Bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 Light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 40 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | reward's children the Tsarévichi | | | a single voice | then | Gracious lord and our father and the greatest pleasure *ccomp* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner | | 2 | **try** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **catch** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | | the Bird of Light | | | | alive *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=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 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 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/10/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/10/65/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/10/)