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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/) / 121 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 121 He consented to do so, but in the mean time he let his mother go down the ladder, as well as the Princess--whom it had been settled he was to marry when they got home. **Who acts:** Ivan, mother, shoes · **What happens:** consent, do, let, go down, settle, be · **To what, where:** ladder, Princess This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan, mother, shoes), 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:pg22373:24:121 # text = He consented to do so, but in the mean time he let his mother go down the ladder, as well as the Princess--whom it had been settled he was to marry when they got home. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 consented consent VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 so so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 mean mean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 17 down down ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 ladder ladder NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 21 as as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 31 cc _ _ 22 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 fixed _ _ 23 as as ADP IN _ 21 fixed _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 26 -- -- PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 31 obl _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 settled settle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 xcomp _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 parataxis _ _ 36 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 38 advmod _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 39 home home ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **consent** | past | Ivan | | | | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | Ivan *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **let** | past | Ivan | | | | time | | tree rules | | 4 | **go down** | infinitive | Ivan's mother | the ladder | | | | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **settle** | past · perfect · passive | | the Princess | | | | | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location | | 6 | **is** | past | Ivan | | | | | marry *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **get** | past | shoes *= shoe* | | | | | home *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/120/) - next →: [sentence 122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/122/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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