--- title: The widow comes to pay Melania a visit, and is induced to believe, o… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: The widow comes to pay Melania a visit, and is induced to believe, on the evidence of beans (frequently used for the purpose of divination), that her destined husband is close at hand. Who acts: widow, destined husband, divination. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/211/) [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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/) / 211 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 211 The widow comes to pay Melania a visit, and is induced to believe, on the evidence of beans (frequently used for the purpose of divination), that her destined husband is close at hand. **Who acts:** widow, destined husband, divination · **What happens:** come, pay, induce, believe, use, destine · **To what, where:** Melania, evidence, hand, beans This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow, destined husband, divination), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:12:211 # text = The widow comes to pay Melania a visit, and is induced to believe, on the evidence of beans (frequently used for the purpose of divination), that her destined husband is close at hand. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 widow widow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 Melania Melania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 visit visit NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 induced induce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 beans bean NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 frequently frequently ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 divination divination NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 32 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 destined destine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 amod _ _ 34 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 37 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | the widow | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pay** | to-infinitive | the widow *not said here* | | Melania | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent melania=Recipient visit=Asset | | 3 | **induce** | present · passive | the widow *not said here* | | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: clause=Result | | 4 | **believe** | to-infinitive | the widow *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **use** | participle | | the evidence of beans *not said here* | | | | for the purpose of divination; frequently *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **destine** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **is** | present | widow's destined husband | | | hand | | close *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **evidence** | | | beans | | | | | nom evidence «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 9 | **purpose** | | divination | | | | | | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | 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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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 210](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/210/) - next →: [sentence 212](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/212/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. 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