--- title: So the old man said to Iván: “Ivánushka, pray to the Lord God, and g… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So the old man said to Iván: “Ivánushka, pray to the Lord God, and go and buy a golden vessel and a _fatá_, and to-morrow go and make your homage to the king.” Who acts: old man, Ivánushka. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/21/85/) [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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/21/) / 85 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 85 So the old man said to Iván: “Ivánushka, pray to the Lord God, and go and buy a golden vessel and a \_fatá\_, and to-morrow go and make your homage to the king.” **Who acts:** old man, Ivánushka · **What happens:** say, pray, go, buy, make · **To what, where:** Iván, golden vessel, morrow, homage · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, Ivánushka), 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:pg62509:21:85 # text = So the old man said to Iván: “Ivánushka, pray to the Lord God, and go and buy a golden vessel and a _fatá_, and to-morrow go and make your homage to the king.” 1 So so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Iván Iván PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 9 “ " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Ivánushka Ivánushka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 pray pray VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 vessel vessel NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 _ _ PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 fatá fatá NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 35 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 homage homage NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old man | | Iván | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to iván=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **pray** *in a quote* | infinitive | Ivánushka | | | | | to the Lord God | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | Ivánushka *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **buy** *in a quote* | infinitive | Ivánushka *not said here* | a golden vessel and a fatá | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme | | 5 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | Ivánushka *not said here* | | | morrow | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | Ivánushka *not said here* | your homage | | | | to the king | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset homage=Product | 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 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/21/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/21/86/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/21/)