--- title: That groom always used to tell him tales [_skazki_], and on this occ… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: That groom always used to tell him tales [_skazki_], and on this occasion Prince Ivan went to him expecting to hear some stories [_skazochki_], but that wasn't what he heard. Who acts: groom, that, Ivan. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYT --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/73/) [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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/) / 73 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 73 That groom always used to tell him tales \[\_skazki\_\], and on this occasion Prince Ivan went to him expecting to hear some stories \[\_skazochki\_\], but that wasn't what he heard. **Who acts:** groom, that, Ivan · **What happens:** use, tell, go, expect, hear, not be · **To what, where:** groom, tales, Ivan, occasion, stories · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (groom, that, Ivan), 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:pg22373:32:73 # text = That groom always used to tell him tales [_skazki_], and on this occasion Prince Ivan went to him expecting to hear some stories [_skazochki_], but that wasn't what he heard. 1 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 groom groom NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 3 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 4 advmod _ _ 4 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ _ 8 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 skazki skazki NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 12 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 det _ _ 18 occasion occasion NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 19 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Ivan Ivan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 21 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 expecting expect VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 28 det _ _ 28 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 skazochki skazochki NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 32 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 but but CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 36 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 39 nsubj _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 38 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 21 obl _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | participle | | that groom *not said here* | | | | always *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | tales | Ivan | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient tale=Topic | | 3 | **go** | past | that groom | | Ivan | this occasion | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **expect** | gerund | that groom *not said here* | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **hear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | that groom *not said here* | some stories | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | | 6 | **not** **is a** | past | that | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **hear** | past | Ivan | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | 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 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/74/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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