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title: More bitterly still did the prince weep as he rode farther and farth… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: More bitterly still did the prince weep as he rode farther and farther on. Who acts: Ivan. 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.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 91

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More bitterly still did the prince weep as he rode farther and farther on.

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**Who acts:** Ivan · **What happens:** do, ride · **To what, where:** prince weep

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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 (Ivan), 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:pg22373:32:91
# text = More bitterly still did the prince weep as he rode farther and farther on.
1	More	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
2	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	weep	weep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the prince weep |  |  | still | bitterly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weep=Eventuality |
| 2 | **ride** | past | Ivan |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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