--- title: "Gladly would we do so, Prince Ivan, only we have now but a short ti… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: "Gladly would we do so, Prince Ivan, only we have now but a short time to live. Who acts: we. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/83/) [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/) / 83 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 83 "Gladly would we do so, Prince Ivan, only we have now but a short time to live. **Who acts:** we · **What happens:** do, have, live · **To what, where:** Prince Ivan 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 (we), 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:pg22373:32:83 # text = "Gladly would we do so, Prince Ivan, only we have now but a short time to live. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Gladly gladly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 3 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Ivan Ivan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 only only ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 14 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** *in a quote* | would | we | Prince Ivan | | | | gladly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | we | | | | now | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **live** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/84/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/)