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title: So she handed over all the housekeeping affairs to Prince Ivan, and… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: So she handed over all the housekeeping affairs to Prince Ivan, and gave him these instructions: Who acts: Marya. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 48

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So she handed over all the housekeeping affairs to Prince Ivan, and gave him these instructions:

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**Who acts:** Marya · **What happens:** hand, give · **To what, where:** housekeeping affairs, instructions, Prince

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (Marya), 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:pg22373:22:48
# text = So she handed over all the housekeeping affairs to Prince Ivan, and gave him these instructions:
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	handed	hand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	housekeeping	housekeeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	instructions	instruction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hand** | past | Marya |  |  | all housekeeping affairs to Prince Ivan |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | past | Marya *not said here* | this instructions | Prince |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient instruction=Theme |

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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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