--- title: "I can see well enough by the bridegroom's eyes that the bride is to… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: "I can see well enough by the bridegroom's eyes that the bride is to his taste, only I don't know what the bride thinks about taking him." Who acts: Aunt, eyes, bride. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/214/) [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/) / 214 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 214 "I can see well enough by the bridegroom's eyes that the bride is to his taste, only I don't know what the bride thinks about taking him." **Who acts:** Aunt, eyes, bride · **What happens:** see, be, not know, think, take · **To what, where:** bridegroom · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Aunt, eyes, bride), 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:pg22373:12:214 # text = "I can see well enough by the bridegroom's eyes that the bride is to his taste, only I don't know what the bride thinks about taking him." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 6 enough enough ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bridegroom bridegroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 taste taste NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 only only ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 23 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 25 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 28 obj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 29 about about SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** *in a quote* | can | Aunt | | | | | by the bridegroom's eyes; enough, well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the bridegroom's eyes | | | | | to bridegroom's taste | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Aunt | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | the bride | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | | 5 | **take** *in a quote* | gerund | the bride *not said here* | | bridegroom | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | 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 213](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/213/) - next →: [sentence 215](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/215/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. 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