--- title: St. Nicholas at once went off to the peasant, and said: “Go and sell… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: St. Nicholas at once went off to the peasant, and said: “Go and sell the Father by St. Elias’ all your standing corn: not a blade will be left; it will be destroyed by hail.” Who acts: Nicholas, standing corn, hail. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26, with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/26/37/) [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/) / 37 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 37 St. Nicholas at once went off to the peasant, and said: “Go and sell the Father by St. Elias’ all your standing corn: not a blade will be left; it will be destroyed by hail.” **Who acts:** Nicholas, standing corn, hail · **What happens:** go off, say, go, sell, not leave, destroy · **To what, where:** Father, blade · **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 (Nicholas, standing corn, hail), 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:pg62509:26:37 # text = St. Nicholas at once went off to the peasant, and said: “Go and sell the Father by St. Elias’ all your standing corn: not a blade will be left; it will be destroyed by hail.” 1 St. St. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:desc _ _ 2 Nicholas Nicholas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 5 obl _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 off off ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 peasant peasant NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 sell sell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Father Father PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 St. St. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 Elias Elias PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 24 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 27 det:predet _ _ 25 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 standing standing NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 28 : : PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 blade blade NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 destroyed destroy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 40 by by ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 hail hail NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go off** | past | Nicholas St. | | | | | to the peasant | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Nicholas St. *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | your standing corn *parataxis* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **sell** *in a quote* | infinitive | | the Father | | | | by St. | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme | | 5 | **not** **leave** *in a quote* | future · passive | your standing corn *not said here* | a blade | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **destroy** *in a quote* | future · passive | hail | blade | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | 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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/26/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/26/38/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/26/)