--- title: Iván Tsarévich told the grey Wolf where he wanted to go, and the gre… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Iván Tsarévich told the grey Wolf where he wanted to go, and the grey Wolf flew off with him swifter than any horse; and, in a short time, as it might be in a single night, he conducted Iván Tsarévich to a stone wall, stopped, and said: “Now, Iván Tsarévich, jump off me—off the grey Wolf—and go thro --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/10/94/) [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/) / 94 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 94 Iván Tsarévich told the grey Wolf where he wanted to go, and the grey Wolf flew off with him swifter than any horse; and, in a short time, as it might be in a single night, he conducted Iván Tsarévich to a stone wall, stopped, and said: “Now, Iván Tsarévich, jump off me—off the grey Wolf—and go through this stone wall. **Who acts:** Iván, IVÁN, grey Wolf, WOLF · **What happens:** tell, want, go, fly off, be, conduct · **To what, where:** grey Wolf, swifter, Iván, stone wall · **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 (Iván, IVÁN, grey Wolf, WOLF), 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:pg62509:10:94 # text = Iván Tsarévich told the grey Wolf where he wanted to go, and the grey Wolf flew off with him swifter than any horse; and, in a short time, as it might be in a single night, he conducted Iván Tsarévich to a stone wall, stopped, and said: “Now, Iván Tsarévich, jump off me—off the grey Wolf—and go through this stone wall. 1 Iván Iván PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Tsarévich Tsarévich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 Wolf Wolf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 iobj _ _ 7 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 9 advmod _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 Wolf Wolf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 off off ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 21 swifter swifter NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 than than ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ _ 24 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 33 as as ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 35 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 36 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 cop _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 conducted conduct VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 44 Iván Iván PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 45 Tsarévich Tsarévich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 flat _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 49 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 51 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 54 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 : : PUNCT : _ 62 punct _ _ 56 “ " PUNCT `` _ 62 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 57 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 62 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 59 Iván Iván PROPN NNP Number=Sing 62 nsubj _ _ 60 Tsarévich Tsarévich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 59 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 62 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 54 ccomp _ _ 63 off off ADP RP _ 64 case _ _ 64 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 62 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 65 — - PUNCT : _ 62 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 66 off off ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 67 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 69 det _ _ 68 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 69 amod _ _ 69 Wolf Wolf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 62 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 70 — - PUNCT : _ 72 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 71 and and CCONJ CC _ 72 cc _ _ 72 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 62 conj _ _ 73 through through ADP IN _ 76 case _ _ 74 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 76 det _ _ 75 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 76 compound _ _ 76 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 72 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 77 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Iván | | the grey Wolf | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent wolf=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **want** | past | IVÁN *= iván* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | IVÁN *= iván* *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **fly off** | past | the grey Wolf | swifter than any horse | | | | with IVÁN *= iván* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | might | WOLF | | | | as a single night | | tree rules | | 6 | **conduct** | past | IVÁN *= iván* | Iván | | a stone wall | time | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent iván=Theme to wall=Destination | | 7 | **stop** | past | IVÁN *= iván* *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Iván *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **jump off** *in a quote* | infinitive | Iván | Iván | | the grey Wolf | now | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent i=Theme off wolf=Trajectory | | 10 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | Iván *not said here* | | | this stone wall | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through wall=Initial\_Location | 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 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/10/93/) - next →: [sentence 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/10/95/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/10/)