--- title: Then the Ram said: “My _shúba_ is very warm; I will pass the winter… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the Ram said: “My _shúba_ is very warm; I will pass the winter in this fashion.” Who acts: Ram, shúba. 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/pg62509/30/155/) [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/) / 155 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 155 Then the Ram said: “My \_shúba\_ is very warm; I will pass the winter in this fashion.” **Who acts:** Ram, shúba · **What happens:** say, be, pass · **To what, where:** fashion · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Ram, shúba), 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:pg62509:30:155 # text = Then the Ram said: “My _shúba_ is very warm; I will pass the winter in this fashion.” 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Ram Ram PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 6 “ " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 shúba shúba NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 9 punct _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 very very ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 parataxis _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 22 fashion fashion NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ” " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Ram | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | My shúba | | | | | warm *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **pass** *in a quote* | future | the Ram *= ram* | | | this fashion | winter | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in fashion=Location | 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 154](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/30/154/) - next →: [Opening, part 31, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/31/1/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/30/)