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title: When they drew near to the capital, what should they see but Prince… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: When they drew near to the capital, what should they see but Prince Ivan driving a herd of cows! Who acts: companions, Prince Ivan. 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 cla
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 90

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When they drew near to the capital, what should they see but Prince Ivan driving a herd of cows!

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**Who acts:** companions, Prince Ivan · **What happens:** draw, see, drive · **To what, where:** capital, herd

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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 (companions, Prince Ivan), 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:pg22373:44:90
# text = When they drew near to the capital, what should they see but Prince Ivan driving a herd of cows!
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	near	near	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
16	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | companions *= companion* |  |  | the capital |  | near *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to capital=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | should | companions *= companion* | the capital |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 3 | **drive** | gerund | Prince Ivan *not said here* | a herd of cows |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme herd=Trajectory |

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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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