--- title: “Listen, Vóron Vóronovich: I will not touch your son if you will do… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Listen, Vóron Vóronovich: I will not touch your son if you will do me a service; to fly across thrice-nine lands into the thrice-tenth realm and bring me the waters of Life and Death.” Who acts: you, Dmítri. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11, with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/11/65/) [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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/11/) / 65 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 65 “Listen, Vóron Vóronovich: I will not touch your son if you will do me a service; to fly across thrice-nine lands into the thrice-tenth realm and bring me the waters of Life and Death.” **Who acts:** you, Dmítri · **What happens:** listen, not touch, do, fly, bring · **To what, where:** Vóron, son, service, Dmítri, thrice nine lands, waters This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Dmítri), 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:pg62509:11:65 # text = “Listen, Vóron Vóronovich: I will not touch your son if you will do me a service; to fly across thrice-nine lands into the thrice-tenth realm and bring me the waters of Life and Death.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Listen listen VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Vóron Vóron PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 Vóronovich Vóronovich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 6 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 if if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 17 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 iobj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 service service NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 23 across across ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 thrice thrice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 28 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 30 thrice thrice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 tenth tenth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 realm realm NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 36 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 waters water NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Life Life PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 Death Death PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **listen** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | Vóron | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **touch** *in a quote* | future | Dmítri | your son | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme son=Co-Theme | | 3 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | you | a service | Dmítri | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **fly** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Dmítri *not said here* | | | thrice nine lands | | into the tenth realm *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into realm=Result | | 5 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive | Dmítri *not said here* | the waters of Life and Death | Dmítri | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination water=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 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/11/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/11/66/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/11/)