--- title: Danílo took the silver staff and hied away, and she again stayed him… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Danílo took the silver staff and hied away, and she again stayed him on his course, and she gave him three little eggs, two of silver, one of gold, and said, “With the silver eggs give the Easter greeting to the Prince and the Princess, but the golden one keep and live your life along with it.” Who --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/4/73/) [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/) / 73 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 73 Danílo took the silver staff and hied away, and she again stayed him on his course, and she gave him three little eggs, two of silver, one of gold, and said, “With the silver eggs give the Easter greeting to the Prince and the Princess, but the golden one keep and live your life along with it.” **Who acts:** Danílo, bottom, silver eggs · **What happens:** take, hie away, stay, give, say, live · **To what, where:** silver staff, DANÍLO, course, three little eggs, Easter greeting, Prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, bottom, silver eggs), 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:pg62509:4:73 # text = Danílo took the silver staff and hied away, and she again stayed him on his course, and she gave him three little eggs, two of silver, one of gold, and said, “With the silver eggs give the Easter greeting to the Prince and the Princess, but the golden one keep and live your life along with it.” 1 Danílo Danílo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 staff staff NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 hied hie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 8 away away ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 again again ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 stayed stay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 iobj _ _ 23 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 24 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 appos _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 conj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 38 “ " PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 With with SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj _ _ 43 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 ccomp _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 Easter Easter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 greeting greeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 47 to to ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 54 but but CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 56 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 amod _ _ 57 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 compound _ _ 58 keep keep NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 parataxis _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 60 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 58 conj _ _ 61 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 62 nmod:poss _ _ 62 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 obj _ _ 63 along along ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 64 with with ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 65 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 60 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 67 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | Danílo | the silver staff | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=Theme | | 2 | **hie away** | participle | Danílo *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **stay** | past | bottom | DANÍLO *= danílo* | | DANÍLO's course | again | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme he=Location | | 4 | **give** | past | bottom | three little eggs | DANÍLO *= danílo* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient egg=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **give** *in a quote* | present | the silver eggs | the Easter greeting | the Prince and the Princess | | | the golden one keep *parataxis* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme to prince=Recipient | | 7 | **live** *in a quote* | infinitive | the silver eggs *not said here* | your life | | | | along life | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=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 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/4/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/4/74/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/4/)