--- title: Ványa went back home as though he had never been there; and the brot… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Ványa went back home as though he had never been there; and the brothers told him where they had been, what they had done and seen; and he listened as though he had never heard of it before. Who acts: Ványa, brothers, fields, brother. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/26/133/) [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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/26/) / 133 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 133 Ványa went back home as though he had never been there; and the brothers told him where they had been, what they had done and seen; and he listened as though he had never heard of it before. **Who acts:** Ványa, brothers, fields, brother · **What happens:** go back, not be, tell, be, do, see · **To what, where:** Ványa · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ványa, brothers, fields, brother), 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:pg62509:26:133 # text = Ványa went back home as though he had never been there; and the brothers told him where they had been, what they had done and seen; and he listened as though he had never heard of it before. 1 Ványa Ványa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 back back ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 home home ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 as as ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 6 though though SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 9 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 10 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 cop _ _ 11 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 iobj _ _ 18 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 21 advmod _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 been be VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 26 obj _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 listened listen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 33 as as ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 though though SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 36 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 38 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ _ 41 before before ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go back** | past | Ványa | | | | | home *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **not** **is** | past · perfect | Ványa | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the brothers | | Ványa | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **be** | past · perfect | fields *= field* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **do** | past · perfect | fields *= field* | | | | | what *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 6 | **see** | participle | fields *= field* *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **listen** | past | brother | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **not** **hear** | past · perfect | brother | | | | | of grave; before *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus | 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 132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/26/132/) - next →: [sentence 134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/26/134/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/26/)