--- title: He sat under the same apple-tree, and sat there one hour and went to… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He sat under the same apple-tree, and sat there one hour and went to sleep so soundly that he never heard the coming of the Bird of Light, which flew on to the tree, perched on it, and plucked many apples. Who acts: LIGHT. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10, with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/10/69/) [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/) / 69 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 69 He sat under the same apple-tree, and sat there one hour and went to sleep so soundly that he never heard the coming of the Bird of Light, which flew on to the tree, perched on it, and plucked many apples. **Who acts:** LIGHT · **What happens:** sit, go, sleep, not hear, come, fly on · **To what, where:** same apple tree, tree, many apples 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 (LIGHT), 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:pg62509:10:69 # text = He sat under the same apple-tree, and sat there one hour and went to sleep so soundly that he never heard the coming of the Bird of Light, which flew on to the tree, perched on it, and plucked many apples. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 under under ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 6 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 soundly soundly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 xcomp _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 35 on on ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 perched perch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 acl _ _ 41 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 plucked pluck VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 46 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 apples apple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past | LIGHT | | | the same apple tree | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | | 2 | **sit** | past | LIGHT *not said here* | | | there | hour | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **go** | past | LIGHT *not said here* | | | | | soundly *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | LIGHT *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **hear** | past | LIGHT | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **come** | gerund | LIGHT *not said here* | | | | | of the Bird of Light | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of bird=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **fly on** | past | Light | | | | | to the tree *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tree=Result | | 8 | **perch** | participle | | the tree *not said here* | | | | on BIRD | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location | | 9 | **pluck** | past | LIGHT *not said here* | many apples | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient | 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. 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