--- title: So he waited to the very day on which the poor peasant in the previo… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So he waited to the very day on which the poor peasant in the previous year had sown his corn, went and took from his bins quarters of different sorts of corn, went out into the fields and scattered it all on the snow. Who acts: peasant. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/35/115/) [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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/35/) / 115 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 115 So he waited to the very day on which the poor peasant in the previous year had sown his corn, went and took from his bins quarters of different sorts of corn, went out into the fields and scattered it all on the snow. **Who acts:** peasant · **What happens:** wait, sow, go, take, go out, scatter · **To what, where:** poor peasant, bins quarters, fields, corn, snow This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant), 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:pg62509:35:115 # text = So he waited to the very day on which the poor peasant in the previous year had sown his corn, went and took from his bins quarters of different sorts of corn, went out into the fields and scattered it all on the snow. 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 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 very very ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 obl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 peasant peasant NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 previous previous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 17 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 sown sow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl:relcl _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 bins bin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 compound _ _ 28 quarters quarter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 sorts sort NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 36 out out ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 into into ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 scattered scatter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 42 det _ _ 44 on on ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | past | peasant | | | | day | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sow** | past · perfect · passive | | the poor peasant in the previous year | | | on the day | peasant's corn *obj* | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | past | peasant *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **take** | past | peasant *not said here* | | | peasant's bins quarters of different sorts of corn | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from quarter=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **go out** | past | peasant *not said here* | | | the fields | | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **scatter** | past | peasant *not said here* | corn | | the snow | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on snow=Destination | | 7 | **sort** | | | corn | | | | | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/35/114/) - next →: [sentence 116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/35/116/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/35/)