--- title: This occurred on two successive days, but on the second occasion Pri… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: This occurred on two successive days, but on the second occasion Prince Ivan was a witness of what took place, and he seized her feather-dress and burnt it, and then laid hold of her. Who acts: This, Prince Ivan, Ivan. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/138/) [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 III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/) / 138 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 138 This occurred on two successive days, but on the second occasion Prince Ivan was a witness of what took place, and he seized her feather-dress and burnt it, and then laid hold of her. **Who acts:** This, Prince Ivan, Ivan · **What happens:** occur, be, take, seize, burnt, lay · **To what, where:** witness, second occasion, place, feather dress, dress, hold This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Prince Ivan, 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:pg22373:35:138 # text = This occurred on two successive days, but on the second occasion Prince Ivan was a witness of what took place, and he seized her feather-dress and burnt it, and then laid hold of her. 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 nsubj _ _ 2 occurred occur VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 5 successive successive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 12 amod _ _ 12 occasion occasion NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 13 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 Ivan Ivan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 witness witness NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nmod _ _ 20 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 21 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 seized seize VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 27 feather feather NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 dress dress NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 burnt burnt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 36 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 37 hold hold NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **occur** | participle | This | | | | day | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | past | Prince Ivan | a witness | | the second occasion | | | tree rules | | 3 | **take** | past | | place | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | | 4 | **seize** | past | Ivan | mother's feather dress | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Theme | | 5 | **burnt** | past | Ivan *not said here* | dress | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **lay** | past | Ivan *not said here* | hold of mother | | | then | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result | | 7 | **hold** | | | mother | | | | | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/137/) - next →: [sentence 139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/139/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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