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title: Prince Ivan buried his parents, and took to living according to thei… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Ivan buried his parents, and took to living according to their instructions. Who acts: Prince Ivan, parents. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 18

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Prince Ivan buried his parents, and took to living according to their instructions.

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**Who acts:** Prince Ivan, parents · **What happens:** bury, take, live, accord, instruct · **To what, where:** parents

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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 (Prince Ivan, parents), 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:pg22373:43:18
# text = Prince Ivan buried his parents, and took to living according to their instructions.
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	case	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	instructions	instruction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bury** | past | Prince Ivan | Ivan's parents |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | Prince Ivan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **live** | gerund | Prince Ivan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | accord parents's instructions | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **instruct** |  | parents *= parent* |  |  |  |  |  | nom instruction «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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