--- title: Prince Ivan went into the house, and the maiden received him kindly,… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Prince Ivan went into the house, and the maiden received him kindly, gave him to eat and to drink, and then began to question him. Who acts: Prince Ivan, maiden. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, with its dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/40/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/) / 40 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 40 Prince Ivan went into the house, and the maiden received him kindly, gave him to eat and to drink, and then began to question him. **Who acts:** Prince Ivan, maiden · **What happens:** go, receive, give, eat, drink, begin · **To what, where:** house, Ivan 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 (Prince Ivan, maiden), 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:pg22373:24:40 # text = Prince Ivan went into the house, and the maiden received him kindly, gave him to eat and to drink, and then began to question him. 1 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Ivan Ivan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 maiden maiden NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 received receive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 iobj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 25 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 question question VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Prince Ivan | | | the house | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **receive** | past | the maiden | Ivan | | | | kindly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **give** | past | Prince Ivan *not said here* | | Ivan | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Prince Ivan *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **drink** | to-infinitive | Prince Ivan *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **begin** | past | Prince Ivan *not said here* | | | | then | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **question** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Prince Ivan *not said here* | | Ivan | | | | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | 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 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/41/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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