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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 133

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The Prince reached home, began saluting every one, kissed his sister too--and no sooner had he kissed her than from that very moment he forgot all about his wife, just as if she had never entered into his mind.

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**Who acts:** Prince, wife · **What happens:** reach, begin, salute, kiss, forget, not enter · **To what, where:** one, sister, fly, wife, mind

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, wife), 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:pg22373:27:133
# text = The Prince reached home, began saluting every one, kissed his sister too--and no sooner had he kissed her than from that very moment he forgot all about his wife, just as if she had never entered into his mind.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	saluting	salute	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	iobj	_	_
14	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	all	all	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
31	about	about	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
35	just	just	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
37	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	entered	enter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
42	into	into	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **salute** | gerund | the Prince *not said here* | every one |  |  |  |  | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
| 4 | **kiss** | past |  |  | Prince's sister |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **kiss** | past | Prince | fly |  |  | moment | soon *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **forget** | past | Prince | Prince's wife |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **enter** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | wife |  |  | Prince's mind |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into mind=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **mind** |  | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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