--- title: So the wolf ran up to the ram—ran up and said: “Ram, I am going to e… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So the wolf ran up to the ram—ran up and said: “Ram, I am going to eat you—it is the command of the Lord.” Who acts: wolf, ram. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/5/67/) [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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/5/) / 67 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 67 So the wolf ran up to the ram—ran up and said: “Ram, I am going to eat you—it is the command of the Lord.” **Who acts:** wolf, ram · **What happens:** run up, say, go, eat, be · **To what, where:** Ram, you, command · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolf, ram), 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:pg62509:5:69 # text = So the wolf ran up to the ram—ran up and said: “Ram, I am going to eat you—it is the command of the Lord.” 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 ram ram NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 — - PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 “ " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 Ram ram NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 — - PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 command command NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ” " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run up** | past | the wolf | | | | | to the ram | tree rules | | 2 | **run up** | past | the wolf *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the wolf *not said here* | Ram | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the wolf *= wolf* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **eat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the wolf *= wolf* *not said here* | you | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | ram | the command | | | | of the Lord | tree rules | 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 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/5/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/5/68/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/5/)