--- title: "Ever since that time," says the story, "it has been customary to of… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: "Ever since that time," says the story, "it has been customary to offer prayers and thanksgiving (_molebnui_) to Nicholas twice a year, but to Kasian only once every leap-year." Who acts: story, thanksgiving. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/58/107/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/58/) / 107 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 107 "Ever since that time," says the story, "it has been customary to offer prayers and thanksgiving (\_molebnui\_) to Nicholas twice a year, but to Kasian only once every leap-year." **Who acts:** story, thanksgiving · **What happens:** say, be, offer · **To what, where:** customary, prayers · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (story, thanksgiving), 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:pg22373:58:107 # text = "Ever since that time," says the story, "it has been customary to offer prayers and thanksgiving (_molebnui_) to Nicholas twice a year, but to Kasian only once every leap-year." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 5 advmod _ _ 3 since since ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 det _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 cop _ _ 16 customary customary NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 ccomp _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 offer offer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 acl _ _ 19 prayers prayer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 thanksgiving thanksgiving NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 molebnui molebnui NOUN FW Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Nicholas Nicholas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 31 advmod _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 Kasian Kasian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 ccomp _ _ 36 only only ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 35 advmod _ _ 38 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 41 det _ _ 39 leap leap NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the story | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present · perfect | thanksgiving | customary and molebnui | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **offer** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the story *not said here* | prayers and thanksgiving | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme | 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 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/58/106/) - next →: [sentence 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/58/108/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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