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title: "I cannot abide with you; I must go in search of my wife the fair Pr… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "I cannot abide with you; I must go in search of my wife the fair Princess Marya Morevna." Who acts: Prince. 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 67

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"I cannot abide with you; I must go in search of my wife the fair Princess Marya Morevna."

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** not abide, go, search · **To what, where:** search, wife

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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 (Prince), 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:pg22373:22:67
# text = "I cannot abide with you; I must go in search of my wife the fair Princess Marya Morevna."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	abide	abide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Marya	Marya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
21	Morevna	Morevna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **abide** *in a quote* | can | Prince |  |  |  |  | with you | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | must | Prince |  |  | search of my wife |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location |
| 3 | **search** *in a quote* |  |  | my wife |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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