--- title: Now, listen to me: I am a king’s daughter; Koshchéy the Deathless fe… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Now, listen to me: I am a king’s daughter; Koshchéy the Deathless fell in love with me, took me away from my father and from my mother, wished to marry me, but I always laughed at him. Who acts: you, I, Koshchéy. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34, with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/34/90/) [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/) / 90 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 90 Now, listen to me: I am a king’s daughter; Koshchéy the Deathless fell in love with me, took me away from my father and from my mother, wished to marry me, but I always laughed at him. **Who acts:** you, I, Koshchéy · **What happens:** listen, be, fall, take away, wish, marry · **To what, where:** me, daughter, love 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 (you, I, Koshchéy), 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:pg62509:34:90 # text = Now, listen to me: I am a king’s daughter; Koshchéy the Deathless fell in love with me, took me away from my father and from my mother, wished to marry me, but I always laughed at him. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 listen listen VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 8 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ’s 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 Koshchéy Koshchéy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Deathless Deathless PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ _ 17 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 24 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 iobj _ _ 25 away away ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 wished wish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 conj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 but but CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 42 advmod _ _ 42 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 43 at at ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **listen** | imperative | you *not said here* | | me | | now | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | I | a king's daughter | | | | a king *nmod:poss* | tree rules | | 3 | **fall** | past | Koshchéy | | | love | | with me | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | | 4 | **take away** | past | Koshchéy *not said here* | | me | | | from my father and my mother; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Theme from father=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **wish** | participle | Koshchéy *not said here* | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Koshchéy *not said here* | me | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | | 7 | **laugh** | past | I | | | | | at Koshchéy; always *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/34/89/) - next →: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/34/91/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/34/)