--- title: For a long time no man takes advantage of the offer, but at last a b… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: For a long time no man takes advantage of the offer, but at last a blind man, who goes about led by a hunchback named Mantharaka or Cripple, marries her, receives the gold, and is sent far away with his wife and his friend. Who acts: man, blind man. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, blind man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:44:132 # text = For a long time no man takes advantage of the offer, but at last a blind man, who goes about led by a hunchback named Mantharaka or Cripple, marries her, receives the gold, and is sent far away with his wife and his friend. 1 For for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 6 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 advantage advantage NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 offer offer NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 obl _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 about about ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 led lead VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 xcomp _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 hunchback hunchback NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 28 Mantharaka Mantharaka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 xcomp _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 Cripple Cripple PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 32 marries marry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 33 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 receives receive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 42 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 43 advmod _ _ 43 away away ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 44 with with ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 48 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present | no man | advantage of the offer | | | time | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme | | 2 | **go about** | present | a blind man | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **lead** | participle | a blind man *not said here* | | | | | by a hunchback; about *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by hunchback=Destination | | 4 | **name** | participle | | a hunchback *not said here* | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **marry** | present | no man *not said here* | cripple | | last | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 6 | **receive** | present | no man *not said here* | the gold | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | | 7 | **send** | present · passive | | | | | | with man's wife and man's friend; away *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP» | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/44/131/) - next →: [sentence 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/44/133/) - ↑ back to [Magic and Witchcraft., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/44/)