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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 57

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In the story of the "Purchased Wife," the Princess Anastasia, the Beautiful, enables the youth Ivan, who ransoms her, to win a large sum of money in the following manner.

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**Who acts:** youth · **What happens:** purchase, enable, ransom, win, follow, sum · **To what, where:** youth, story, Ivan, large sum, following manner, money

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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 (youth), 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:pg22373:14:57
# text = In the story of the "Purchased Wife," the Princess Anastasia, the Beautiful, enables the youth Ivan, who ransoms her, to win a large sum of money in the following manner.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Purchased	purchase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	Wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Anastasia	Anastasia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	enables	enable	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	ransoms	ransom	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	amod	_	_
37	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **purchase** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **enable** | present |  | the youth |  | the story of the Purchased Wife |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ransom** | present | the youth | Ivan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **win** | to-infinitive | the youth *not said here* | a large sum of money |  | the following manner |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Eventuality |
| 5 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **sum** |  |  | money |  |  |  |  | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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