--- title: So she blessed him, and he went on and on for very many weary miles,… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So she blessed him, and he went on and on for very many weary miles, and met the old man on the tree, who gave him another rolling-pin: and the pin rolled up to the mountain; and both were lost, pin and Prince! Who acts: life, Prince, tree. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Open --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/32/95/) [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/) / 95 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 95 So she blessed him, and he went on and on for very many weary miles, and met the old man on the tree, who gave him another rolling-pin: and the pin rolled up to the mountain; and both were lost, pin and Prince! **Who acts:** life, Prince, tree · **What happens:** bless, go, meet, give, roll up, lose · **To what, where:** Prince, old man, tree, rolling pin, pin, mountain 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 (life, Prince, tree), 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:pg62509:32:95 # text = So she blessed him, and he went on and on for very many weary miles, and met the old man on the tree, who gave him another rolling-pin: and the pin rolled up to the mountain; and both were lost, pin and Prince! 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 blessed bless VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 on on ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 on on ADV RB _ 9 conj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 very very ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 weary weary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 iobj _ _ 30 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 33 det _ _ 31 rolling rolling NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 pin pin NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 : : PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 pin pin NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 rolled roll VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 39 up up ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ; ; PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 45 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 47 nsubj:pass _ _ 46 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux:pass _ _ 47 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 49 pin pin NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bless** | past | life | Prince | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 2 | **go** | past | Prince | | | | | for many weary miles | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for mile=Beneficiary | | 3 | **meet** | past | life *not said here* | the old man | | the tree | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | | 4 | **give** | past | the tree | another rolling pin | Prince | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient pin=Theme | | 5 | **roll up** | participle · passive | | the pin | | the mountain | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to mountain=Trajectory | | 6 | **lose** | past · passive | | both | | | | pin *obj*; Prince *conj* | tree rules | 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 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/32/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/32/96/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/32/)