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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 115

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But whatever slanders she might invent, Prince Ivan never would allow himself to be influenced by what she said, but always felt sorry for his tutor.

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**Who acts:** whatever, difficulty · **What happens:** slander, invent, not allow, influence, say, feel · **To what, where:** Prince · **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 (whatever, difficulty), 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:pg22373:43:115
# text = But whatever slanders she might invent, Prince Ivan never would allow himself to be influenced by what she said, but always felt sorry for his tutor.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	slanders	slander	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	invent	invent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	iobj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	influenced	influence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	24	advmod	_	_
24	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	tutor	tutor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slander** | present | whatever |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **invent** | might | difficulty | Prince |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Result |
| 3 | **not** **allow** | would | difficulty *not said here* |  | Prince |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **influence** | to-infinitive · passive | difficulty *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP» |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | difficulty |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **feel** | past | whatever *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Prince's tutor; always, sorry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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