--- title: On the eve of Easter Sunday Prince Vladímir summoned Danílo the Unfo… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: On the eve of Easter Sunday Prince Vladímir summoned Danílo the Unfortunate, and he gave him eighty score of sable skins, and he bade him sew a _shúba_[7] for the feast: the sable skins were not prepared, and the buttons had not been moulded, and the buttonholes had not been made. Who acts: DANÍLO. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/4/25/) [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/) / 25 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 25 On the eve of Easter Sunday Prince Vladímir summoned Danílo the Unfortunate, and he gave him eighty score of sable skins, and he bade him sew a \_shúba\_\[7\] for the feast: the sable skins were not prepared, and the buttons had not been moulded, and the buttonholes had not been made. **Who acts:** DANÍLO · **What happens:** summon, give, bade, sew, not prepare, not mould · **To what, where:** Danílo, eve, eighty score, Prince, shúba, sable skins 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), 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:pg62509:4:25 # text = On the eve of Easter Sunday Prince Vladímir summoned Danílo the Unfortunate, and he gave him eighty score of sable skins, and he bade him sew a _shúba_[7] for the feast: the sable skins were not prepared, and the buttons had not been moulded, and the buttonholes had not been made. 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 eve eve NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 Easter Easter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:desc _ _ 8 Vladímir Vladímir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 9 summoned summon VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 Danílo Danílo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Unfortunate unfortunate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 iobj _ _ 18 eighty eighty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 score score NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 sable sable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 skins skin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 bade bade VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 sew sew VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 shúba shúba NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 : : PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 sable sable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 skins skin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nsubj:pass _ _ 43 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux:pass _ _ 44 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 45 prepared prepare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 buttons button NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 nsubj:pass _ _ 50 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 53 aux _ _ 51 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 53 advmod _ _ 52 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 53 aux:pass _ _ 53 moulded mould VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 buttonholes buttonhole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 61 nsubj:pass _ _ 58 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 61 aux _ _ 59 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 61 advmod _ _ 60 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 61 aux:pass _ _ 61 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 62 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **summon** | past | | | Danílo | the eve of Easter Sunday | | unfortunate *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent danílo=Recipient | | 2 | **give** | past | DANÍLO *= danílo* | eighty score of sable skins | Prince | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient score=Theme | | 3 | **bade** | past | DANÍLO *= danílo* | Prince | | | | for the feast; 7 *obl* | tree rules | | 4 | **sew** | infinitive | DANÍLO *= danílo* *not said here* | a shúba | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shúba=Product | | 5 | **not** **prepare** | past · passive | | the sable skins | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **not** **mould** | past · perfect · passive | | the buttons | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **make** | past · perfect · passive | | the buttonholes | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 8 | **score** | | | sable skins | | | | | nom score «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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/4/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/4/26/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/4/)