--- title: So Svyatogór purchases her freedom by taking out five hundred rouble… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So Svyatogór purchases her freedom by taking out five hundred roubles, laying it on the table, and then snatching up his sharp sword out of his sheath smote her on her white breasts and so left her. Who acts: Svyatogór. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40, with it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/40/134/) [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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/40/) / 134 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 134 So Svyatogór purchases her freedom by taking out five hundred roubles, laying it on the table, and then snatching up his sharp sword out of his sheath smote her on her white breasts and so left her. **Who acts:** Svyatogór · **What happens:** purchase, take out, lay, snatch up, smite, leave · **To what, where:** freedom, hundred roubles, table, sharp sword, Svyatogór This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Svyatogór), 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:pg62509:40:134 # text = So Svyatogór purchases her freedom by taking out five hundred roubles, laying it on the table, and then snatching up his sharp sword out of his sheath smote her on her white breasts and so left her. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 Svyatogór Svyatogór PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 purchases purchase VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 freedom freedom NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 by by SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 8 out out ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 compound _ _ 10 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 roubles rouble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 laying lay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ _ 21 snatching snatch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 26 out out ADP IN _ 30 mark _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 sheath sheath NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 30 smote smite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 31 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 breasts breast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 39 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **purchase** | present | Svyatogór | Svyatogór's freedom | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Theme | | 2 | **take out** | gerund | Svyatogór *not said here* | hundred roubles | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rouble=Theme | | 3 | **lay** | gerund | Svyatogór *not said here* | freedom | | the table | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on table=Destination | | 4 | **snatch up** | gerund | Svyatogór *not said here* | hold's sharp sword | | | then | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | | 5 | **smite** | past | Svyatogór *not said here* | Svyatogór | | | | of hold's sheath; on Svyatogór's white breasts | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument on breast=Patient | | 6 | **leave** | past | Svyatogór *not said here* | Svyatogór | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | 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 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/40/133/) - next →: [sentence 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/40/135/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/40/)