--- title: So he grew very angry, and the doughty youth took his cudgel, went i… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So he grew very angry, and the doughty youth took his cudgel, went into the palace and began knocking about the looking-glasses and mirrors, tearing up the velvet, breaking the chairs, shattering the silver. Who acts: Cossack, doughty youth. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Ope --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/34/76/) [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/) / 76 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 76 So he grew very angry, and the doughty youth took his cudgel, went into the palace and began knocking about the looking-glasses and mirrors, tearing up the velvet, breaking the chairs, shattering the silver. **Who acts:** Cossack, doughty youth · **What happens:** grow, take, go, begin, knock, look · **To what, where:** cudgel, palace, velvet, chairs, silver 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 (Cossack, doughty youth), 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:pg62509:34:76 # text = So he grew very angry, and the doughty youth took his cudgel, went into the palace and began knocking about the looking-glasses and mirrors, tearing up the velvet, breaking the chairs, shattering the silver. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 doughty doughty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 cudgel cudgel NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 16 into into ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 knocking knock VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 xcomp _ _ 22 about about ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 glasses glass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 mirrors mirror NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 tearing tear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 conj _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 velvet velvet NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 breaking break VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 chairs chair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 shattering shatter VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 conj _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | Cossack | | | | | angry *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **take** | past | the doughty youth | Cossack's cudgel | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cudgel=Theme | | 3 | **go** | past | the doughty youth *not said here* | | | the palace | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into palace=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **begin** | past | the doughty youth *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **knock** | gerund | the doughty youth *not said here* | | | | | about the looking glasses and mirrors | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about glass=Location | | 6 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **tear up** | gerund | the doughty youth *not said here* | the velvet | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location velvet=Theme | | 8 | **break** | gerund | the doughty youth *not said here* | the chairs | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chair=Patient | | 9 | **shatter** | gerund | the doughty youth *not said here* | the silver | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silver=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 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/34/75/) - next →: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/34/77/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/34/)