--- title: So the old man went to collect them, and said, “If only the Sun woul… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So the old man went to collect them, and said, “If only the Sun would warm the grain, and the moon show its light on it, and Crow Crowson help me to get the groats, I would give my eldest daughter to the little Sun, and my middle daughter to the Moon, and my youngest to Crow Crowson.” Who acts: old --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/37/118/) [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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/37/) / 118 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 118 So the old man went to collect them, and said, “If only the Sun would warm the grain, and the moon show its light on it, and Crow Crowson help me to get the groats, I would give my eldest daughter to the little Sun, and my middle daughter to the Moon, and my youngest to Crow Crowson.” **Who acts:** old man, Sun, moon · **What happens:** go, collect, say, warm, show, crow · **To what, where:** middle daughter, groats, grain, light, Crowson, old man · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, Sun, moon), 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:pg62509:37:120 # text = So the old man went to collect them, and said, “If only the Sun would warm the grain, and the moon show its light on it, and Crow Crowson help me to get the groats, I would give my eldest daughter to the little Sun, and my middle daughter to the Moon, and my youngest to Crow Crowson.” 1 So so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 collect collect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 13 “ " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 If if SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 15 only only ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 warm warm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 27 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 Crow crow VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 34 Crowson Crowson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 groats groat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 45 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 46 eldest eld ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 47 amod _ _ 47 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 iobj _ _ 48 to to ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 50 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 54 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 56 nmod:poss _ _ 55 middle middle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 56 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 57 to to ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 56 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 61 and and CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 62 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 63 nmod:poss _ _ 63 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 parataxis _ _ 64 to to PART TO _ 65 mark _ _ 65 Crow crow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 63 csubj _ _ 66 Crowson Crowson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 65 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 67 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 68 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the old man | my middle daughter to the Moon | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **collect** | to-infinitive | the old man *not said here* | groats *= groat* | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old man *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **warm** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | would | the Sun | the grain | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent grain=Patient | | 5 | **show** *in a quote* | present | the moon | MOON's light | | light | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent light=Recipient | | 6 | **crow** *in a quote* | infinitive | | Crowson | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **help** *in a quote* | infinitive | | the old man *= man* | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 8 | **get** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the old man *= man* *not said here* | the groats | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer groat=Stimulus | | 9 | **give** *in a quote* | would | the old man *= man* | | my eldest daughter | | | to the little Sun | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to sun=Recipient | | 10 | **crow** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | Crowson | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crowson=Topic | | 11 | **light** *in a quote* | | MOON | | | | | | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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. 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