--- title: Then the eagle rose higher and higher, and he flew and flew, and the… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the eagle rose higher and higher, and he flew and flew, and then he came down to earth and said, “Now, Tsar my master, come and sit on me: we will fly together.” Who acts: eagle, we. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/29/50/) [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/) / 50 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 50 Then the eagle rose higher and higher, and he flew and flew, and then he came down to earth and said, “Now, Tsar my master, come and sit on me: we will fly together.” **Who acts:** eagle, we · **What happens:** rise, fly, come down, say, come, sit · **To what, where:** earth · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, we), 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:pg62509:29:50 # text = Then the eagle rose higher and higher, and he flew and flew, and then he came down to earth and said, “Now, Tsar my master, come and sit on me: we will fly together.” 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 xcomp _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 19 down down ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 “ " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 Tsar Tsar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 ccomp _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 parataxis _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 : : PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 38 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 41 together together ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise** | past | the eagle | | | | then | high *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **fly** | past | eagle | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fly** | past | eagle *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **come down** | past | eagle | | | earth | then | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to earth=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the eagle *not said here* | | | | | Tsar *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **sit** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | on the eagle *= eagle* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on i=Location | | 8 | **fly** *in a quote* | future | we | | | | | together *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «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. 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