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title: Then Koshchei entreated Prince Ivan, saying,-- — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Koshchei entreated Prince Ivan, saying,-- Who acts: Koshchei. 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 52

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Then Koshchei entreated Prince Ivan, saying,--

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**Who acts:** Koshchei · **What happens:** entreat, say · **To what, where:** Prince Ivan · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Koshchei), 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:pg22373:22:52
# text = Then Koshchei entreated Prince Ivan, saying,--
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	entreated	entreat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **entreat** | past | Koshchei |  | Prince Ivan |  | then |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ivan=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Koshchei *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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