--- title: He held a private conversation with the coachman as to how his journ… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: He held a private conversation with the coachman as to how his journeyman had set to work with the lady, and what he had done to her, and then he thought:-- Who acts: journeyman. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, with it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/156/) [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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/) / 156 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 156 He held a private conversation with the coachman as to how his journeyman had set to work with the lady, and what he had done to her, and then he thought:-- **Who acts:** journeyman · **What happens:** hold, set, work, do, think · **To what, where:** private conversation, journeyman, lady This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (journeyman), 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:pg22373:17:156 # text = He held a private conversation with the coachman as to how his journeyman had set to work with the lady, and what he had done to her, and then he thought:-- 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 conversation conversation NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 coachman coachman NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 as as SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 9 fixed _ _ 11 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 journeyman journeyman NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 advcl _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 2 parataxis _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 34 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 -- -- PUNCT NFP _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | past | journeyman | a private conversation | | | | with the coachman | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conversation=Theme | | 2 | **set** | past · perfect · passive | | journeyman's journeyman | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **work** | to-infinitive | | | | | | with the lady | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with lady=Co-Agent | | 4 | **do** | past · perfect | journeyman | | lady | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | journeyman | | | | then | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 155](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/155/) - next →: [Chapter I. 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