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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/) / 89 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 89 Prince Ivan was terribly frightened at having let the hare escape, and gave himself up to gloomy thoughts; but a wolf, the one he had refrained from killing, rushed after the hare, caught it, and brought it to Prince Ivan. **Who acts:** hare, wolf · **What happens:** frighten, have, let, escape, give up, refrain · **To what, where:** Prince Ivan, hare, gloomy thoughts, one, killing 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 (hare, wolf), 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:pg22373:24:89 # text = Prince Ivan was terribly frightened at having let the hare escape, and gave himself up to gloomy thoughts; but a wolf, the one he had refrained from killing, rushed after the hare, caught it, and brought it to Prince Ivan. 1 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Ivan Ivan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 4 terribly terribly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 at at SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 8 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 hare hare NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 escape escape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ 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 5 conj _ _ 15 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 14 obj _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 gloomy gloomy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 refrained refrain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 acl:relcl _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 killing killing NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 rushed rush VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 29 conj _ _ 34 after after ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 hare hare NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 38 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 Ivan Ivan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **frighten** | past · passive | | Prince Ivan | | | | terribly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 2 | **have** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | | the hare | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **escape** | infinitive | the hare *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **give up** | past | | hare | gloomy thoughts | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to thought=Recipient | | 6 | **refrain** | past · perfect | hare | the one *not said here* | | killing | | | tree rules | | 7 | **rush** | participle | hare *not said here* | | | | after the hare | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **catch** | past | a wolf | killing | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 9 | **bring** | past | a wolf *not said here* | killing | Prince Ivan | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to ivan=Destination | 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 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/88/) - next →: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/90/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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