--- title: So Danílo the Unfortunate invited them as guests; and the Swan-bird,… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So Danílo the Unfortunate invited them as guests; and the Swan-bird, the fair maiden, stepped out to her window, flapped her wings, shook her little head, and there was a bridge laid from her house to the palace of Prince Vladímir. Who acts: Danílo, Swan bird, bridge. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tal --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/4/112/) [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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/4/) / 112 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 112 So Danílo the Unfortunate invited them as guests; and the Swan-bird, the fair maiden, stepped out to her window, flapped her wings, shook her little head, and there was a bridge laid from her house to the palace of Prince Vladímir. **Who acts:** Danílo, Swan bird, bridge · **What happens:** invite, step out, flap, shake, be, lay · **To what, where:** hoofs, window, wings, little head, bridge, house This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Danílo, Swan bird, bridge), 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:pg62509:4:112 # text = So Danílo the Unfortunate invited them as guests; and the Swan-bird, the fair maiden, stepped out to her window, flapped her wings, shook her little head, and there was a bridge laid from her house to the palace of Prince Vladímir. 1 So so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 Danílo Danílo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Unfortunate Unfortunate PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 5 invited invite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 guests guest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 Swan Swan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 maiden maiden NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 stepped step VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 21 out out ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 flapped flap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 31 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 37 expl _ _ 37 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 40 laid lay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 acl _ _ 41 from from ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 nmod:desc _ _ 49 Vladímir Vladímir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **invite** | past | Danílo | hoofs *= hoof* | | | | as guests | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 2 | **step out** | past | the Swan bird | | | guest's window | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to window=Destination | | 3 | **flap** | past | the Swan bird *not said here* | guest's wings | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | | 4 | **shake** | past | the Swan bird *not said here* | guest's little head | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | | 5 | **be** | past | a bridge | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **lay** | participle | | a bridge *not said here* | | guest's house | | to the palace of Vladímir Prince | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from house=Material | 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 111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/4/111/) - next →: [sentence 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/4/113/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/4/)