--- title: Next day Elijah the Prophet and St. Nicholas were out together in th… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Next day Elijah the Prophet and St. Nicholas were out together in the guise of wanderers, and the peasant happened to meet them, carrying two waxen candles—one big one that cost a rouble, and a little one that cost a kopek. Who acts: Next day, peasant, one big one, little one. 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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 (Next day, peasant, one big one, little one), 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:pg62509:26:90 # text = Next day Elijah the Prophet and St. Nicholas were out together in the guise of wanderers, and the peasant happened to meet them, carrying two waxen candles—one big one that cost a rouble, and a little one that cost a kopek. 1 Next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 3 Elijah Elijah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Prophet Prophet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 St. St. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:desc _ _ 8 Nicholas Nicholas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 out out ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 together together ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 guise guise NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 wanderers wanderer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 peasant peasant NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 carrying carry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 27 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 28 waxen waxen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 candles candle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 — - PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 32 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 cost cost VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 rouble rouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 appos _ _ 43 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 44 nsubj _ _ 44 cost cost VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 acl:relcl _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 kopek kopek NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Next day | | | the guise of wanderers | | the Prophet and Nicholas St. *nsubj*; out, together *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **happen** | past | the peasant | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive | the peasant *not said here* | wanderers *= wanderer* | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | | 4 | **carry** | gerund | the peasant *not said here* | two waxen candles | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Theme | | 5 | **cost** | past | one big one | a rouble | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme rouble=Value | | 6 | **cost** | past | a little one | a kopek | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kopek=Value | 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 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/26/89/) - next →: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/26/91/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/26/)