--- title: He went straight to the royal palace, and the king himself saw him a… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He went straight to the royal palace, and the king himself saw him and looked at the mare and began to wonder: “What is this great hero approaching? Who acts: Tsarévna, king, great hero. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmati --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/8/45/) [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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/8/) / 45 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 45 He went straight to the royal palace, and the king himself saw him and looked at the mare and began to wonder: “What is this great hero approaching? **Who acts:** Tsarévna, king, great hero · **What happens:** go, see, look, begin, wonder, be · **To what, where:** Tsarévna, great hero · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarévna, king, great hero), 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:pg62509:8:45 # text = He went straight to the royal palace, and the king himself saw him and looked at the mare and began to wonder: “What is this great hero approaching? 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 straight straight ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 11 nmod:unmarked _ _ 13 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 mare mare NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 wonder wonder VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 24 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 25 “ " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 30 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 29 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 hero hero NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 31 approaching approach VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Tsarévna | | | | | to the royal palace | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **see** | past | the king Tsarévna | Tsarévna | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 3 | **look** | past | the king Tsarévna *not said here* | | | | | at the mare | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at mare=Theme | | 4 | **begin** | past | Tsarévna *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | Tsarévna *not said here* | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | this great hero | | | | What *nsubj* | tree rules | | 7 | **approach** *in a quote* | gerund | this great hero *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/8/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/8/46/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/8/)