--- title: Koshchéy leaped on his horse, caught up Iván Tsarévich, broke him up… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Koshchéy leaped on his horse, caught up Iván Tsarévich, broke him up into tiny bits, put them into a tar cask, took this cask, locked it with iron bolts and threw it into the blue sea. Who acts: Koshchéy, horse. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24, with its depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/24/16/) [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/) / 16 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 16 Koshchéy leaped on his horse, caught up Iván Tsarévich, broke him up into tiny bits, put them into a tar cask, took this cask, locked it with iron bolts and threw it into the blue sea. **Who acts:** Koshchéy, horse · **What happens:** leap, catch up, break up, put, take, lock · **To what, where:** Iván, Koshchéy, tiny bits, bits, tar cask, cask 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 (Koshchéy, horse), 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:pg62509:24:16 # text = Koshchéy leaped on his horse, caught up Iván Tsarévich, broke him up into tiny bits, put them into a tar cask, took this cask, locked it with iron bolts and threw it into the blue sea. 1 Koshchéy Koshchéy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 leaped leap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 Iván Iván PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 Tsarévich Tsarévich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 15 into into ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 tar tar NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 cask cask NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 27 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 28 cask cask NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 locked lock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 bolts bolt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 into into ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leap** | past | Koshchéy | | | | | on Koshchéy's horse | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horse=Trajectory | | 2 | **catch up** | participle | Koshchéy's horse *not said here* | Iván | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **break up** | past | Koshchéy *not said here* | Koshchéy | | | | into tiny bits *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into bit=Result | | 4 | **put** | infinitive | Koshchéy *not said here* | bits *= bit* | | a tar cask | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | | 5 | **take** | past | | this cask | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cask=Theme | | 6 | **lock** | past | | cask | | | | with iron bolts | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with bolt=Instrument | | 7 | **throw** | past | | cask | | | | into the blue sea *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into sea=Result | 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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/24/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/24/17/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/24/)