--- title: A father sets out with his boy for "the bazaar," hoping to find a te… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: A father sets out with his boy for "the bazaar," hoping to find a teacher there who will instruct the child in such science as enables people "to work little, and feed delicately, and dress well." Who acts: father. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chap --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/146/) [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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/) / 146 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 146 A father sets out with his boy for "the bazaar," hoping to find a teacher there who will instruct the child in such science as enables people "to work little, and feed delicately, and dress well." **Who acts:** father · **What happens:** set out, hope, find, instruct, enable, work · **To what, where:** teacher, child, such science, people, little · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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:pg22373:40:146 # text = A father sets out with his boy for "the bazaar," hoping to find a teacher there who will instruct the child in such science as enables people "to work little, and feed delicately, and dress well." 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sets set VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 bazaar bazaar NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 hoping hope VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 21 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 instruct instruct VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 parataxis _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 science science NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 29 enables enable VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 34 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 38 delicately delicately ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 dress dress VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 conj _ _ 42 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 41 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set out** | present | a father | | | | | with father's boy for the bazaar | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **hope** | gerund | a father *not said here* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **find** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a father *not said here* | a teacher | | there | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Topic | | 4 | **instruct** *speech: other* | future | | | the child | such science | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient | | 5 | **enable** | present | | people | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **work** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | little | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent little=Material | | 7 | **feed** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | delicately *property* | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **dress** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | well *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/145/) - next →: [sentence 147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/147/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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