--- title: So he took his gun in his hand, went to a tree, and began pondering… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So he took his gun in his hand, went to a tree, and began pondering very hard. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/24/131/) [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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/24/) / 131 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 131 So he took his gun in his hand, went to a tree, and began pondering very hard. **Who acts:** King · **What happens:** take, go, begin, ponder · **To what, where:** gun, hand, tree This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg62509:24:131 # text = So he took his gun in his hand, went to a tree, and began pondering very hard. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 gun gun NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 pondering ponder VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 xcomp _ _ 18 very very ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | King | King's gun | | King's hand | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gun=Value in hand=Location | | 2 | **go** | past | King *not said here* | | | a tree | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **begin** | past | King *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **ponder** | gerund | King *not said here* | | | | | hard *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/24/130/) - next →: [sentence 132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/24/132/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/24/)