--- title: Then the snake spoke to him in a human voice: “Do not be frightened,… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the snake spoke to him in a human voice: “Do not be frightened, good youth; bear me on your neck for seven years, and go to seek the Kingdom of Tin: when you arrive in that kingdom stay there and live there seven years more, and do not ever leave it: if you serve this service you shall be happy --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/34/61/) [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 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/34/) / 61 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 61 Then the snake spoke to him in a human voice: “Do not be frightened, good youth; bear me on your neck for seven years, and go to seek the Kingdom of Tin: when you arrive in that kingdom stay there and live there seven years more, and do not ever leave it: if you serve this service you shall be happy.” **Who acts:** snake, Cossack · **What happens:** speak, do, not frighten, bear, go, seek · **To what, where:** Cossack, human voice, good youth, snake, neck, Kingdom · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snake, Cossack), 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:pg62509:34:61 # text = Then the snake spoke to him in a human voice: “Do not be frightened, good youth; bear me on your neck for seven years, and go to seek the Kingdom of Tin: when you arrive in that kingdom stay there and live there seven years more, and do not ever leave it: if you serve this service you shall be happy.” 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 Do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 bear bear VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 22 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Kingdom Kingdom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Tin Tin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 : : PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 39 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 41 advmod _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 arrive arrive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 44 det _ _ 44 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 45 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ _ 46 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 45 advmod _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 conj _ _ 49 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 48 advmod _ _ 50 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 51 nummod _ _ 51 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 obl:unmarked _ _ 52 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 48 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 55 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 58 aux _ _ 56 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 58 advmod _ _ 57 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 58 advmod _ _ 58 leave leave VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ _ 59 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 58 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 60 : : PUNCT : _ 69 punct _ _ 61 if if SCONJ IN _ 63 mark _ _ 62 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 63 nsubj _ _ 63 serve serve VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 69 advcl _ _ 64 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 65 det _ _ 65 service service NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obj _ _ 66 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 69 nsubj _ _ 67 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 69 aux _ _ 68 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 69 cop _ _ 69 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 70 . . PUNCT . _ 69 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 71 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the snake | | Cossack | a human voice | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **frighten** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive | | good youth | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 4 | **bear** *in a quote* | infinitive | | the snake *= snake* | | your neck | year | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | | 5 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **seek** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | the Kingdom of Tin | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme | | 7 | **arrive** *in a quote* | present | Cossack | | | that kingdom | | | tree rules | | 8 | **stay** *in a quote* | infinitive | Cossack *not said here* | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **live** *in a quote* | infinitive | Cossack *not said here* | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **not** **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | Kingdom | | | ever | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 11 | **serve** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | Cossack | this service | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Attribute | | 12 | **is** *in a quote* | shall | Cossack | | | | | happy *property* | 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 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/34/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/34/62/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/34/)