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description: Princess Anna the Fair lived for some time with Prince Ivan as a wife ought to live with a god-given[320] husband, flattered him in every way in words, but in reality never thought of anything except by what means she might get rid of Katoma. Who acts: Princess Anna, wife. A sentence of «Russian Fai
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 113

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Princess Anna the Fair lived for some time with Prince Ivan as a wife ought to live with a god-given\[320\] husband, flattered him in every way in words, but in reality never thought of anything except by what means she might get rid of Katoma.

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**Who acts:** Princess Anna, wife · **What happens:** live, give, flatter, not think, mean, get · **To what, where:** 320, Ivan, way, reality · **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 Anna, wife), 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:pg22373:43:113
# text = Princess Anna the Fair lived for some time with Prince Ivan as a wife ought to live with a god-given[320] husband, flattered him in every way in words, but in reality never thought of anything except by what means she might get rid of Katoma.
1	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Anna	Anna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Fair	Fair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
20	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	320	320	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
26	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	flattered	flatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
39	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
40	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	40	obl	_	_
43	except	except	ADP	IN	_	46	nsubj	_	_
44	by	by	ADP	IN	_	43	fixed	_	_
45	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	46	nsubj	_	_
46	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl:relcl	_	_
47	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	ccomp	_	_
50	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	xcomp	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	Katoma	Katoma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Princess Anna |  |  |  | time |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | ought | a wife |  |  |  |  | with a given husband | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with husband=Location |
| 3 | **give** | participle |  | 320 |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 320=Theme |
| 4 | **flatter** | past | Princess Anna *not said here* | Ivan |  | every way in words |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 5 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past | Princess Anna *not said here* |  |  | reality |  | of anything | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **get** | might | wife |  |  |  |  | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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