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title: "Let Prince Ivan be weighed against me, to see which is the heavier. — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Let Prince Ivan be weighed against me, to see which is the heavier. Who acts: you, Prince Ivan. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, 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 15, sentence 15

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"Let Prince Ivan be weighed against me, to see which is the heavier.

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**Who acts:** you, Prince Ivan · **What happens:** let, weigh, see, be · **To what, where:** Prince Ivan · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Prince 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:pg22373:33:15
# text = "Let Prince Ivan be weighed against me, to see which is the heavier.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	weighed	weigh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
7	against	against	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | Prince Ivan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **weigh** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive | Prince Ivan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against the witch *= witch* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value» |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | tree rules |

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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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