--- title: “What shall we do, brothers and comrades? the cold time is approachi… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “What shall we do, brothers and comrades? the cold time is approaching: how shall we have warmth?” Who acts: we. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30, 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/pg62509/30/153/) [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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/30/) / 153 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 153 “What shall we do, brothers and comrades? the cold time is approaching: how shall we have warmth?” **Who acts:** we · **What happens:** do, approach, have · **To what, where:** brothers, warmth This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg62509:30:153 # text = “What shall we do, brothers and comrades? the cold time is approaching: how shall we have warmth?” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 comrades comrade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 approaching approach VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 18 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 21 warmth warmth NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** *in a quote* | shall | we | brothers and comrades | | | | What *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 2 | **approach** *in a quote* | present · progressive | we *not said here* | | | | time | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | we | warmth | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warmth=Patient | 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 152](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/30/152/) - next →: [sentence 154](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/30/154/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/30/)