--- title: [150] The Prince who is obliged, in consequence of his father's prom… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: [150] The Prince who is obliged, in consequence of his father's promise, to surrender himself to the Water Giant, falls in love with a maiden whom he finds in that potentate's palace, and who is an enchantress whom the Chudo has stolen. Who acts: prince, palace, father. A sentence of «Russian Fairy --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/45/) [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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/) / 45 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 45 \[150\] The Prince who is obliged, in consequence of his father's promise, to surrender himself to the Water Giant, falls in love with a maiden whom he finds in that potentate's palace, and who is an enchantress whom the Chudo has stolen. **Who acts:** prince, palace, father · **What happens:** oblige, surrender, fall, find, be, steal · **To what, where:** 150, consequence, prince, Water Giant, love, palace This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, palace, father), 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:pg22373:28:45 # text = [150] The Prince who is obliged, in consequence of his father's promise, to surrender himself to the Water Giant, falls in love with a maiden whom he finds in that potentate's palace, and who is an enchantress whom the Chudo has stolen. 1 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 150 150 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 4 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:unmarked _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 obliged oblige VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 consequence consequence NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 surrender surrender VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 20 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 19 obj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 Water Water PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 Giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 maiden maiden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 32 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 34 obj _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 det _ _ 37 potentate potentate NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 38 's 's PART POS _ 37 case _ _ 39 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 42 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 45 nsubj _ _ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 44 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 enchantress enchantress NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 appos _ _ 46 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 50 obl _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 Chudo Chudo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 nsubj:pass _ _ 49 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 50 stolen steal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **oblige** | present · passive | | 150 the Prince | | consequence of prince's father's promise | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **surrender** | to-infinitive | | prince | the Water Giant | | | | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to giant=Recipient | | 3 | **fall** | present | | | | love | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | | 4 | **find** | present | prince | | | that potentate's palace | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Topic | | 5 | **is a** | present | that potentate's palace | a enchantress | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **steal** | present · perfect · passive | | the Chudo | | | | a enchantress *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 7 | **promise** | | prince's father | | | | | | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/46/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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