---
title: [186] Became a _nevyesta_, a word meaning "a marriageable maiden," o… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: [186] Became a _nevyesta_, a word meaning "a marriageable maiden," or "a betrothed girl," or "a bride." Who acts: 186, word. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/138/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/) / 138

# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 138

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
\[186\] Became a \_nevyesta\_, a word meaning "a marriageable maiden," or "a betrothed girl," or "a bride."

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** 186, word · **What happens:** become, mean, betroth · **To what, where:** nevyesta, marriageable maiden · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (186, word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg22373:34:138
# text = [186] Became a _nevyesta_, a word meaning "a marriageable maiden," or "a betrothed girl," or "a bride."
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	186	186	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	nevyesta	nevyesta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	marriageable	marriageable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	betrothed	betroth	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | 186 | a nevyesta |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **mean** | gerund | a word *not said here* | a marriageable maiden or a betrothed girl |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Topic |
| 3 | **betroth** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/137/)
- next →: [sentence 139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/139/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/)