---
title: She broke off a sprig, pulled up a water-lily, and put some of the W… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She broke off a sprig, pulled up a water-lily, and put some of the Water of Life into the cup of the flower, and turned back homewards. Who acts: girl, sprig. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/32/116/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/32/) / 116

# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 116

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She broke off a sprig, pulled up a water-lily, and put some of the Water of Life into the cup of the flower, and turned back homewards.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** girl, sprig · **What happens:** break off, pull up, put, turn back · **To what, where:** sprig, water lily, cup, homewards

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, sprig), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:32:116
# text = She broke off a sprig, pulled up a water-lily, and put some of the Water of Life into the cup of the flower, and turned back homewards.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sprig	sprig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	lily	lily	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Life	Life	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	back	back	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	homewards	homeward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break off** | past | girl | a sprig |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sprig=Patient |
| 2 | **pull up** | participle | a sprig *not said here* | a water lily |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lily=Theme |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive | girl *not said here* |  |  | the cup of the flower |  | of the Water of Life | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **turn back** | past | girl *not said here* | homewards |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homeward=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/32/115/)
- next →: [sentence 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/32/117/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/32/)