--- title: But the Prince was preparing to marry a rich Princess, and orders we… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: But the Prince was preparing to marry a rich Princess, and orders were given to proclaim throughout the kingdom, that all Christian people were to come to congratulate the bride and bridegroom, each one bringing a wheaten pie as a present. Who acts: Prince, Christian people, one. A sentence of «Russ --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/27/136/) [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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/27/) / 136 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 136 But the Prince was preparing to marry a rich Princess, and orders were given to proclaim throughout the kingdom, that all Christian people were to come to congratulate the bride and bridegroom, each one bringing a wheaten pie as a present. **Who acts:** Prince, Christian people, one · **What happens:** prepare, marry, give, proclaim, come, congratulate · **To what, where:** rich Princess, orders, bride, wheaten pie 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, Christian people, one), 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:pg22373:27:136 # text = But the Prince was preparing to marry a rich Princess, and orders were given to proclaim throughout the kingdom, that all Christian people were to come to congratulate the bride and bridegroom, each one bringing a wheaten pie as a present. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 preparing prepare VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 orders order NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 proclaim proclaim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 throughout throughout ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 23 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 24 Christian Christian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 26 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 congratulate congratulate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 bridegroom bridegroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 37 det _ _ 37 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 38 bringing bring VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 acl _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 wheaten wheaten ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 pie pie NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 42 as as ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **prepare** | past · progressive | the Prince | | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | | 2 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Prince *not said here* | a rich Princess | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | | 3 | **give** | past · passive | | orders | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **proclaim** | to-infinitive | | | | | throughout the kingdom | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **come** | past | all Christian people | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **congratulate** | to-infinitive | all Christian people *not said here* | the bride and bridegroom | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme | | 7 | **bring** | gerund | each one *not said here* | a wheaten pie | | | | as a present | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pie=Theme | 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 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/27/135/) - next →: [sentence 137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/27/137/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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