--- title: “Oh, yes; about a week ago the peasant sold the field to the pope, a… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Oh, yes; about a week ago the peasant sold the field to the pope, and got hard cash for it! Who acts: peasant. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26, 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/pg62509/26/49/) [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/) / 49 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 49 “Oh, yes; about a week ago the peasant sold the field to the pope, and got hard cash for it! **Who acts:** peasant · **What happens:** sell, get · **To what, where:** field, pope, hard cash 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 (peasant), 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:pg62509:26:49 # text = “Oh, yes; about a week ago the peasant sold the field to the pope, and got hard cash for it! 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 9 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 9 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 ago ago ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 peasant peasant NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 sold sell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 pope pope NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 21 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 cash cash NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ! ! PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sell** *in a quote* | past | the peasant | the field | the pope | | | ago *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent field=Theme to pope=Recipient | | 2 | **get** *in a quote* | past | the peasant *not said here* | hard cash | | | | for pope | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cash=Theme for it=Source | 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 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/26/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/26/50/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/26/)