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title: The Princess got into the carriage and waited to see what would beco… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Princess got into the carriage and waited to see what would become of Prince Ivan; whether the magic horse would fling his curls to the wind, and scatter his bones across the open plain. Who acts: Princess, magic horse. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lo
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 102

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The Princess got into the carriage and waited to see what would become of Prince Ivan; whether the magic horse would fling his curls to the wind, and scatter his bones across the open plain.

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**Who acts:** Princess, magic horse · **What happens:** get, wait, see, become, fling, scatter · **To what, where:** carriage, curls, wind, bones, open plain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, magic horse), 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:pg22373:43:102
# text = The Princess got into the carriage and waited to see what would become of Prince Ivan; whether the magic horse would fling his curls to the wind, and scatter his bones across the open plain.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	fling	fling	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	curls	curl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	scatter	scatter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	across	across	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the Princess |  |  | the carriage |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into carriage=Destination |
| 2 | **wait** | past | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **become** | would |  |  |  |  |  | of Prince | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **fling** | would | the magic horse | horse's curls |  | the wind |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent curl=Theme to wind=Destination |
| 6 | **scatter** | infinitive | the magic horse *not said here* | horse's bones |  | the open plain |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bone=Theme |

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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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