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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 68

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The old man went to the pope,\[32\] (but in that village they had an awfully grasping pope, one without any conscience), and says he:--

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**Who acts:** old man, friends · **What happens:** go, have, grasp, say · **To what, where:** 32, pope, grasping pope, village, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg22373:13:68
# text = The old man went to the pope,[32] (but in that village they had an awfully grasping pope, one without any conscience), and says he:--
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pope	pope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	32	32	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	awfully	awfully	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	grasping	grasp	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
22	pope	pope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	appos	_	_
25	without	without	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	conscience	conscience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	--	--	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the old man | 32 |  | the pope |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to pope=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **have** | past | friends *= friend* | a grasping pope |  | that village |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pope=Patient |
| 3 | **grasp** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | awfully *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | man |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic |

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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.

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**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.

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