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title: Prince Ivan read this inscription, became greatly afflicted, and wen… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Ivan read this inscription, became greatly afflicted, and went off to his tutor. Who acts: Prince. 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 31

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Prince Ivan read this inscription, became greatly afflicted, and went off to his tutor.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** read, become, afflict, go off · **To what, where:** inscription

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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), 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:pg22373:43:31
# text = Prince Ivan read this inscription, became greatly afflicted, and went off to his tutor.
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	inscription	inscription	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	afflicted	afflict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	tutor	tutor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | past | Prince | this inscription |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inscription=Topic |
| 2 | **become** | past | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **afflict** | participle | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **go off** | past | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Prince's tutor | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=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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