--- title: And, as he rested, he began thinking things out: “Where shall I now… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And, as he rested, he began thinking things out: “Where shall I now betake myself, and how shall I feed myself, and how the devil shall I enter into any service?” Who acts: soldier, woman, devil. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/36/184/) [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/) / 184 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 184 And, as he rested, he began thinking things out: “Where shall I now betake myself, and how shall I feed myself, and how the devil shall I enter into any service?” **Who acts:** soldier, woman, devil · **What happens:** rest, begin, think out, betake, feed, enter · **To what, where:** things, woman, service · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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: who acts (soldier, woman, devil), 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:pg62509:36:184 # text = And, as he rested, he began thinking things out: “Where shall I now betake myself, and how shall I feed myself, and how the devil shall I enter into any service?” 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 rested rest VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 thinking think VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 xcomp _ _ 10 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 out out ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 12 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 13 “ " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 18 advmod _ _ 15 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 18 betake betake VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 19 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 23 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 26 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 29 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 devil devil NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 32 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 enter enter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 35 into into ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 37 det _ _ 37 service service NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ” " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rest** | past | soldier | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **begin** | past | soldier | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **think out** *speech: other* | gerund | soldier *not said here* | things | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | | 4 | **betake** *in a quote* | shall | the woman *= woman* | the woman *= woman* | | | now | | tree rules | | 5 | **feed** *in a quote* | shall | the woman *= woman* | the woman *= woman* | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Recipient | | 6 | **enter** *in a quote* | shall | the devil | | | any service | | I *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into service=Initial\_Location | 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 183](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/36/183/) - next →: [Opening, part 37, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/37/1/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/36/)