--- title: But the doughty youth took the barrel and the whip, sat upon the fly… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But the doughty youth took the barrel and the whip, sat upon the flying carpet, waved it one end, and he rose higher than the forest that stood there, lower than the clouds above, and he flew whither he would. Who acts: doughty youth, youth, forest. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doughty youth, youth, forest), 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:pg62509:8:32 # text = But the doughty youth took the barrel and the whip, sat upon the flying carpet, waved it one end, and he rose higher than the forest that stood there, lower than the clouds above, and he flew whither he would. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 doughty doughty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 barrel barrel NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 whip whip NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 upon upon ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 amod _ _ 16 carpet carpet NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 waved wave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 26 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 xcomp _ _ 27 than than ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 conj _ _ 35 than than ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 clouds cloud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 38 above above ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 43 whither whither ADV WRB PronType=Int 45 advmod _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | the doughty youth | the barrel and the whip | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barrel=Theme | | 2 | **sit** | past | the doughty youth *not said here* | | | the flying carpet | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon carpet=Location | | 3 | **fly** | gerund | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **wave** | past | the doughty youth *not said here* | barrel | | | one end | | tree rules | | 5 | **rise** | past | youth | | | | | high *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **stand** | past | the forest | | | there | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **fly** | past | youth | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/8/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/8/33/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/8/)