--- title: Now Iván Tsarévich had heard of Márya Tsarévna, went to her stepmoth… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Now Iván Tsarévich had heard of Márya Tsarévna, went to her stepmother, laid a bowl on the table, and said: “Whichever of the maidens brings me the bowl full of berries, I will marry.” Who acts: Iván, Whichever, I. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2, with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/2/25/) [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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/2/) / 25 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 25 Now Iván Tsarévich had heard of Márya Tsarévna, went to her stepmother, laid a bowl on the table, and said: “Whichever of the maidens brings me the bowl full of berries, I will marry.” **Who acts:** Iván, Whichever, I · **What happens:** hear, go, lay, say, bring, marry · **To what, where:** bowl, table, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván, Whichever, I), 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:pg62509:2:25 # text = Now Iván Tsarévich had heard of Márya Tsarévna, went to her stepmother, laid a bowl on the table, and said: “Whichever of the maidens brings me the bowl full of berries, I will marry.” 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 Iván Iván PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 Tsarévich Tsarévich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Márya Márya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 Tsarévna Tsarévna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 stepmother stepmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 25 “ " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 Whichever whichever NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 maidens maiden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 30 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 31 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 iobj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 berries berry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past · perfect | Iván | | | | now | of Márya | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of márya=Stimulus | | 2 | **go** | past | | | | | | to Márya's stepmother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to stepmother=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **lay** | past | | a bowl | | the table | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme on table=Destination | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **bring** *in a quote* | present | Whichever of the maidens | the bowl | me | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination bowl=Theme | | 6 | **marry** *in a quote* | future | I | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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. 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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/2/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/2/26/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/2/)