--- title: So the Tsar was mollified, and took the eagle to himself, and he fed… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So the Tsar was mollified, and took the eagle to himself, and he fed him one year and another year, and the eagle ate up so much, ate up all the cattle; and the Tsar had neither a sheep nor a cow left. Who acts: eagle, Tsar. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29, wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/29/41/) [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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/29/) / 41 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 41 So the Tsar was mollified, and took the eagle to himself, and he fed him one year and another year, and the eagle ate up so much, ate up all the cattle; and the Tsar had neither a sheep nor a cow left. **Who acts:** eagle, Tsar · **What happens:** mollify, take, feed, eat up, have, leave · **To what, where:** Tsar, eagle, VASILÍSA, cattle, sheep, cow This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle, Tsar), 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:pg62509:29:41 # text = So the Tsar was mollified, and took the eagle to himself, and he fed him one year and another year, and the eagle ate up so much, ate up all the cattle; and the Tsar had neither a sheep nor a cow left. 1 So so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Tsar Tsar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 mollified mollify VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 fed feed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 22 det _ _ 22 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 much much ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 33 up up ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 36 det:predet _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 cattle cattle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ; ; PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 Tsar Tsar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 42 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 44 cc:preconj _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 sheep sheep NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 45 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 47 cc _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ _ 48 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mollify** | past · passive | | the Tsar | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 2 | **take** | past | | the eagle | eagle | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eagle=Theme to himself=Destination | | 3 | **feed** | past | eagle | | VASILÍSA *= vasilísa* | | year | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 4 | **eat up** | past | the eagle | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **eat up** | past | | all cattle | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Patient | | 6 | **have** | past | the Tsar | a sheep nor a cow | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient | | 7 | **leave** | participle | | a cow *not said here* | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/29/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/29/42/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/29/)