--- title: And then Alyósha Popóvich cried out, “Túgarin, I thank you, Túgarin… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And then Alyósha Popóvich cried out, “Túgarin, I thank you, Túgarin Zmyéyevich, for the steel knife: I will tear out your white breast, I will gouge out your bright eyes, and I will gaze on your mettlesome heart.” Who acts: Alyósha. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, par --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/20/70/) [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/) / 70 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 70 And then Alyósha Popóvich cried out, “Túgarin, I thank you, Túgarin Zmyéyevich, for the steel knife: I will tear out your white breast, I will gouge out your bright eyes, and I will gaze on your mettlesome heart.” **Who acts:** Alyósha · **What happens:** cry out, thank, tear out, gouge out, gaze · **To what, where:** Túgarin, you, white breast, bright 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 (Alyósha), 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:pg62509:20:70 # text = And then Alyósha Popóvich cried out, “Túgarin, I thank you, Túgarin Zmyéyevich, for the steel knife: I will tear out your white breast, I will gouge out your bright eyes, and I will gaze on your mettlesome heart.” 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 3 Alyósha Alyósha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 Popóvich Popóvich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 out out ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 “ " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Túgarin Túgarin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 Túgarin Túgarin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 16 Zmyéyevich Zmyéyevich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 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 tear tear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 26 out out ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 breast breast NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 gouge gouge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 34 out out ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 gaze gaze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 43 on on ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 45 mettlesome mettlesome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ” " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | Alyósha | Túgarin and Túgarin | | | then | for the steel knife | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for knife=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | Alyósha | | you | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 3 | **tear out** *in a quote* | future | Alyósha | your white breast | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location breast=Theme | | 4 | **gouge out** *in a quote* | future | Alyósha | your bright eyes | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 5 | **gaze** *in a quote* | future | Alyósha | | | | | on your 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 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/20/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/20/71/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/20/)