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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/) / 36 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 36 Most of the variants represent the Prince as forgiving his brothers, and allowing them to marry two of the three princesses, but the present version appears to keep closer to its original, in which the prince doubtless married all three. **Who acts:** Most, present version, prince doubtless · **What happens:** represent, forgive, allow, marry, appear, keep · **To what, where:** Prince, brothers, two, three This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (Most, present version, prince doubtless), 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:pg22373:21:36 # text = Most of the variants represent the Prince as forgiving his brothers, and allowing them to marry two of the three princesses, but the present version appears to keep closer to its original, in which the prince doubtless married all three. 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 variants variant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 5 represent represent VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 forgiving forgive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 allowing allow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 18 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 princesses princess NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 present present ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 version version NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 appears appear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 closer close ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 30 advmod _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 original original ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 obl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 doubtless doubtless NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 married marry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 42 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 43 det _ _ 43 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **represent** | present | Most of the variants | the Prince | | | | | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot prince=Theme | | 2 | **forgive** | gerund | Most of the variants *not said here* | Prince's brothers | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | | 3 | **allow** | gerund | Most of the variants *not said here* | brothers *= brother* | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | | 4 | **marry** | to-infinitive | Most of the variants *not said here* | two of the three princesses | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient | | 5 | **appear** | present | the present version | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the present version *not said here* | | | | | to version's original; close *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **marry** | past | the prince doubtless | all three | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/37/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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