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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 29

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The Prince went further on; there met him by the way three heroes--Obedalo, Opivalo, and Moroz Treskum; he took them with him and went on to the Water King's.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** go, meet, take, go on · **To what, where:** Moroz, Prince, Obedalo

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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), 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:pg22373:27:29
# text = The Prince went further on; there met him by the way three heroes--Obedalo, Opivalo, and Moroz Treskum; he took them with him and went on to the Water King's.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	further	further	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Obedalo	Obedalo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Opivalo	Opivalo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Moroz	Moroz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
22	Treskum	Treskum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
31	on	on	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the Prince | Moroz |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | past | the Prince *not said here* | Prince |  | there |  | by the way and three heroes | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **take** | past | Prince | Obedalo |  |  |  | with Moroz | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **go on** | past | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the Water King | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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