--- title: The landlord saw that he had a great deal of money, so he gave him a… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: The landlord saw that he had a great deal of money, so he gave him a bedroom which was infested by countless swarms of rats and mice, saying to himself, "If they should happen to eat him up, his money will belong to me." Who acts: landlord, countless swarms, mice, money. A sentence of «Russian Fairy --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/14/) [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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/) / 14 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 14 The landlord saw that he had a great deal of money, so he gave him a bedroom which was infested by countless swarms of rats and mice, saying to himself, "If they should happen to eat him up, his money will belong to me." **Who acts:** landlord, countless swarms, mice, money · **What happens:** see, have, give, infest, say, happen · **To what, where:** great deal, bedroom, merchant, landlord, money · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (landlord, countless swarms, mice, money), 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:pg22373:16:14 # text = The landlord saw that he had a great deal of money, so he gave him a bedroom which was infested by countless swarms of rats and mice, saying to himself, "If they should happen to eat him up, his money will belong to me." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 landlord landlord NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 iobj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 bedroom bedroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 infested infest VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 countless countless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 swarms swarm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 If if SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 ccomp _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ _ 41 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 up up ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 46 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 47 belong belong VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 conj _ _ 48 to to ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | the landlord | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **have** | past | landlord | a great deal of money | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient | | 3 | **give** | past | landlord | a bedroom | merchant | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bedroom=Theme | | 4 | **infest** | past · passive | countless swarms of rats and mice | a bedroom | | | | | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | landlord *not said here* | | merchant | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **happen** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | should | mice *= mouse* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **eat up** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | mice *= mouse* *not said here* | merchant | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 8 | **belong** *in a quote* | future | merchant's money | | landlord | | | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **deal** | | | money | | | | | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/15/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/)