--- title: And Marýshko the son of Parán answered, “Do you give me, Alyósha Pop… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And Marýshko the son of Parán answered, “Do you give me, Alyósha Popóvich, your steel knife, and I will break open the white breast of Túgarin Zmyéyevich, I will close his clear eyes, and I will gaze on his mettlesome heart.” Who acts: Marýshko, you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afana --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/20/53/) [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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/20/) / 53 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 53 And Marýshko the son of Parán answered, “Do you give me, Alyósha Popóvich, your steel knife, and I will break open the white breast of Túgarin Zmyéyevich, I will close his clear eyes, and I will gaze on his mettlesome heart.” **Who acts:** Marýshko, you · **What happens:** answer, give, break, open, close, gaze · **To what, where:** Alyósha, Marýshko, white breast, clear eyes · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Marýshko, you), 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:pg62509:20:53 # text = And Marýshko the son of Parán answered, “Do you give me, Alyósha Popóvich, your steel knife, and I will break open the white breast of Túgarin Zmyéyevich, I will close his clear eyes, and I will gaze on his mettlesome heart.” 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 Marýshko Marýshko PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Parán Parán PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 “ " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 13 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 Alyósha Alyósha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 Popóvich Popóvich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 26 open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 breast breast NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Túgarin Túgarin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 Zmyéyevich Zmyéyevich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 close close VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 gaze gaze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 45 on on ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 47 mettlesome mettlesome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ” " PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Marýshko | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **give** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | Alyósha | Marýshko | | | your steel knife *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient alyósha=Theme | | 3 | **break** *in a quote* | future | Marýshko | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **open** *in a quote* | infinitive | Marýshko *not said here* | the white breast of Túgarin | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location breast=Theme | | 5 | **close** *in a quote* | future | Marýshko | ALYÓSHA's clear eyes | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 6 | **gaze** *in a quote* | future | Marýshko | | | | | on ALYÓSHA's mettlesome heart | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on heart=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 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/20/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/20/54/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/20/)