--- title: Meanwhile, the Russian merchant, after trading some five years, made… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Meanwhile, the Russian merchant, after trading some five years, made a tolerable fortune. Who acts: Russian merchant. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/14/31/) [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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/14/) / 31 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 31 Meanwhile, the Russian merchant, after trading some five years, made a tolerable fortune. **Who acts:** Russian merchant · **What happens:** trade, make · **To what, where:** tolerable fortune This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russian merchant), 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:pg22373:14:31 # text = Meanwhile, the Russian merchant, after trading some five years, made a tolerable fortune. 1 Meanwhile meanwhile ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 Russian Russian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 after after SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 trading trade VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 9 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 11 det _ _ 10 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 13 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 tolerable tolerable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **trade** | gerund | the Russian merchant *not said here* | | | | year | | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **make** | past | the Russian merchant | a tolerable fortune | | | | meanwhile *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fortune=Product | 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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/14/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/14/32/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/14/)