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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/30/) / 27 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 27 I live in my father's house, but never know what pleasure is; my evil stepmother tries to drive me out of the white world; teach me how to keep alive, and what I ought to do." **Who acts:** I, pleasure, evil stepmother · **What happens:** live, not know, be, try, drive, teach · **To what, where:** house, me, white world · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, pleasure, evil stepmother), 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:pg22373:30:27 # text = I live in my father's house, but never know what pleasure is; my evil stepmother tries to drive me out of the white world; teach me how to keep alive, and what I ought to do." 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 12 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 11 ccomp _ _ 13 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 stepmother stepmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 tries try VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 drive drive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 out out ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 29 teach teach VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 30 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 34 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 conj _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 ought ought AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | I | | | my father's house | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | | 2 | **not** **know** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is a** | present | pleasure | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **try** | present | my evil stepmother | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **drive** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | my evil stepmother *not said here* | me | | the white world | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme out world=Trajectory | | 6 | **teach** *speech: other* | infinitive | | | me | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **keep** | to-infinitive | | | | | | alive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **do** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/30/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/30/28/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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