--- title: Off they went and ran and ran, and ran the Yagá-Búra down, saved Fíl… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Off they went and ran and ran, and ran the Yagá-Búra down, saved Fílyushka and brought him home to his grandfather, who had nearly gone out of his mind with fright! Who acts: Ram, grandfather, Fílyushka. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/27/141/) [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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/27/) / 141 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 141 Off they went and ran and ran, and ran the Yagá-Búra down, saved Fílyushka and brought him home to his grandfather, who had nearly gone out of his mind with fright! **Who acts:** Ram, grandfather, Fílyushka · **What happens:** go, run, save, bring, go out, mind · **To what, where:** Yagá Búra, Fílyushka, grandfather, mind This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ram, grandfather, Fílyushka), 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:pg62509:27:141 # text = Off they went and ran and ran, and ran the Yagá-Búra down, saved Fílyushka and brought him home to his grandfather, who had nearly gone out of his mind with fright! 1 Off off ADP IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 Yagá Yagá PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Búra Búra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 down down ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 saved save VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 18 Fílyushka Fílyushka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 home home ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 grandfather grandfather NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 28 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 acl:relcl _ _ 31 out out ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 fright fright NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Ram | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **run** | past | Ram *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **run** | past | Ram *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **run** | past | Ram *not said here* | the Yagá Búra | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **save** | past | Ram *not said here* | Fílyushka | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fílyushka=Theme | | 6 | **bring** | past | Ram *not said here* | Fílyushka | Fílyushka's grandfather | | | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to grandfather=Destination | | 7 | **go out** | past · perfect | Fílyushka's grandfather | Fílyushka's mind with fright | | | | nearly *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **mind** | | Fílyushka | | | | | with fright | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent with=obl | 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 140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/27/140/) - next →: [sentence 142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/27/142/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/27/)