--- title: Then the baby’s mother came to them, threw off her feathers, and gav… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the baby’s mother came to them, threw off her feathers, and gave her little child the breast, and began weeping: “For this one day I may come, but to-morrow I must fly away over the woods and over the hills.” Who acts: mother, little birds. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/2/53/) [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/) / 53 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 53 Then the baby’s mother came to them, threw off her feathers, and gave her little child the breast, and began weeping: “For this one day I may come, but to-morrow I must fly away over the woods and over the hills.” **Who acts:** mother, little birds · **What happens:** come, throw off, give, begin, weep, fly away · **To what, where:** hills, feathers, breast, little child, woods 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 (mother, little birds), 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:pg62509:2:53 # text = Then the baby’s mother came to them, threw off her feathers, and gave her little child the breast, and began weeping: “For this one day I may come, but to-morrow I must fly away over the woods and over the hills.” 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’s 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 off off 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 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 breast breast NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 25 weeping weep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 : : PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 27 “ " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 For for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 det _ _ 30 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 36 but but CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 40 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 43 away away ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 44 over over ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 48 over over ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ” " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the baby's mother | | hills *= hill* | | then | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **throw off** | past | the baby's mother *not said here* | mother's feathers | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme | | 3 | **give** | past | the baby's mother *not said here* | the breast | mother's little child | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient breast=Theme | | 4 | **begin** | past | the baby's mother *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **weep** | gerund | the baby's mother *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **come** *in a quote* | may | little birds *= bird* | | | | day | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **fly away** *in a quote* | must | little birds *= bird* | | | the woods and the hills | | to morrow; away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over wood=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 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/2/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/2/54/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/2/)