--- title: Then the Prince went up the hill, went half-way up; and, as he went… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the Prince went up the hill, went half-way up; and, as he went along, he heard a voice: “Hold him, seize him, grip him!” Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32, 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/pg62509/32/91/) [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/) / 91 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 91 Then the Prince went up the hill, went half-way up; and, as he went along, he heard a voice: “Hold him, seize him, grip him!” **Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** go up, go, go along, hear, hold, seize · **To what, where:** hill, way, voice, Prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Prince), 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:pg62509:32:91 # text = Then the Prince went up the hill, went half-way up; and, as he went along, he heard a voice: “Hold him, seize him, grip him!” 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 half half ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 up up ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 20 along along ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 27 “ " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 Hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 seize seize VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 grip grip VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ! ! PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ” " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go up** | past | the Prince | the hill | | | then | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient hill=Extent | | 2 | **go** | past | the Prince *not said here* | way | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **go along** | past | Prince | | | | | along *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **hear** | past | Prince | a voice | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **hold** *in a quote* | infinitive | | Prince | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 6 | **seize** *in a quote* | infinitive | | Prince | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 7 | **grip** *in a quote* | infinitive | | Prince | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer | 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 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/32/90/) - next →: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/32/92/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/32/)