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title: She confessed all her sins, and swore an oath always to love Prince… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: She confessed all her sins, and swore an oath always to love Prince Ivan, and to obey him in all things. Who acts: Princess. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, 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 3, sentence 125

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She confessed all her sins, and swore an oath always to love Prince Ivan, and to obey him in all things.

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**Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** confess, swear, love, obey · **To what, where:** sins, oath, Prince Ivan, Ivan, things

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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:pg22373:44:125
# text = She confessed all her sins, and swore an oath always to love Prince Ivan, and to obey him in all things.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	confessed	confess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	sins	sin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confess** | past | Princess | Princess's sins |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sin=Topic |
| 2 | **swear** | past |  | a oath |  |  |  | always *property* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent oath=Eventuality |
| 3 | **love** | to-infinitive |  | Prince Ivan |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ivan=Stimulus |
| 4 | **obey** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* | Ivan |  | all things |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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