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title: A certain peasant, known as Ivan the Unlucky, in despair at his cons… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: A certain peasant, known as Ivan the Unlucky, in despair at his constant want of success, goes to the king for advice. Who acts: certain peasant, peasant. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, with its dependency tree and 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 35

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A certain peasant, known as Ivan the Unlucky, in despair at his constant want of success, goes to the king for advice.

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**Who acts:** certain peasant, peasant · **What happens:** know, go, want · **To what, where:** certain peasant, success

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain peasant, peasant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg22373:2852`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:37:35
# text = A certain peasant, known as Ivan the Unlucky, in despair at his constant want of success, goes to the king for advice.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Unlucky	Unlucky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	constant	constant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
20	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  | a certain peasant in despair at peasant's constant want of success *not said here* |  |  |  | as Ivan | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as ivan=Attribute |
| 2 | **go** | present | a certain peasant in despair at peasant's constant want of success |  |  |  |  | to the king; for advice | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **want** |  | peasant | success |  |  |  |  | nom want «state transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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