---
title: Little boat, little boat, sail far away, O’er the blue water away an… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Little boat, little boat, sail far away, O’er the blue water away and away. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/36/107/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/36/) / 107

# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 107

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Little boat, little boat, sail far away, O’er the blue water away and away.

<!-- .vintro -->
**To what, where:** Little boat

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:36:107
# text = Little boat, little boat, sail far away, O’er the blue water away and away.
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	O’er	O'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/36/106/)
- next →: [sentence 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/36/108/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/36/)