--- title: Now Vasíli heard of this, went up and asked the master of the ship,… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Now Vasíli heard of this, went up and asked the master of the ship, “Let me go to the King; possibly I can chase away the Crow and his wife.” Who acts: Vasíli. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6, 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/pg62509/6/102/) [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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/6/) / 102 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 102 Now Vasíli heard of this, went up and asked the master of the ship, “Let me go to the King; possibly I can chase away the Crow and his wife.” **Who acts:** Vasíli · **What happens:** hear, go up, ask, let, go, chase away · **To what, where:** master, Vasíli, Crow · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vasíli), 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:pg62509:6:102 # text = Now Vasíli heard of this, went up and asked the master of the ship, “Let me go to the King; possibly I can chase away the Crow and his wife.” 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 Vasíli Vasíli PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 “ " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 Let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 19 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 possibly possibly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 chase chase VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 29 away away ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Crow crow NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ” " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | Vasíli | | | | now | of this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of this=Stimulus | | 2 | **go up** | past | Vasíli *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Vasíli *not said here* | the master of the ship | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent master=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | Vasíli | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | Vasíli *not said here* | | | | | to the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **chase away** *in a quote* | can | Vasíli | the Crow and Vasíli's wife | | | | away, possibly *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crow=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 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/6/101/) - next →: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/6/103/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/6/)