--- title: Vasilísa went to her window and cried out in a threatening voice, “H… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Vasilísa went to her window and cried out in a threatening voice, “Hail, ye creeping ants, as many as there be of you in the white world, all creep here and pick out all the corn of my father’s hayricks quite cleanly.” Who acts: Vasilísa, ye. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. 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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 (Vasilísa, ye), 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:pg62509:30:52 # text = Vasilísa went to her window and cried out in a threatening voice, “Hail, ye creeping ants, as many as there be of you in the white world, all creep here and pick out all the corn of my father’s hayricks quite cleanly.” 1 Vasilísa Vasilísa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 out out ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 threatening threatening NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Hail hail NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 nsubj _ _ 18 creeping creep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 19 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 as as ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 obl _ _ 23 as as ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 obl _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 cop _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 advcl _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 34 advmod _ _ 34 creep creep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 35 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 38 out out ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 39 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 41 det:predet _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 43 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ’s 's PART POS _ 44 case _ _ 46 hayricks hayrick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nmod _ _ 47 quite quite ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 cleanly cleanly ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Vasilísa | | | | | to Vasilísa's window | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | Vasilísa *not said here* | | | a threatening voice | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in voice=Location | | 3 | **creep** *in a quote* | gerund | ye | ants | | the white world | | many *obl* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location ant=Theme | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | ye *not said here* | | | | | of you | tree rules | | 5 | **creep** *in a quote* | present | | | | here | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **pick out** *in a quote* | infinitive | | all corn of my father's hayricks | | | | cleanly *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=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 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/30/51/) - next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/30/53/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/30/)