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LEGENDS, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/59/) / 50 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 50 \[457\] Then the Evil One afflicted the envious Pope, suggesting to him "Why shouldn't he go and perform the cure by himself, without saying a word to the old man, and so lay hold of all the gold and silver for himself?" **Who acts:** Evil One, Pope · **What happens:** afflict, suggest, not go, perform, say, hold · **To what, where:** 457, Pope, cure, word, old man, gold · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Evil One, Pope), 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:pg22373:59:50 # text = [457] Then the Evil One afflicted the envious Pope, suggesting to him "Why shouldn't he go and perform the cure by himself, without saying a word to the old man, and so lay hold of all the gold and silver for himself?" 1 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 457 457 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Evil Evil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 One One PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 afflicted afflict VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 envious envious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 Pope Pope PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 suggesting suggest VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 18 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 19 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 parataxis _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 perform perform VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 cure cure NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 without without SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 so so ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 lay lay ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 hold hold NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 45 det:predet _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ _ 48 for for ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **afflict** | past | the Evil One | 457 | | | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | gerund | the Evil One *not said here* | | Pope | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | should | Pope | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **perform** *in a quote* | infinitive | Pope *not said here* | the cure | | | | by Pope | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cure=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | gerund | Pope *not said here* | a word | the old man | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to man=Recipient | | 6 | **hold** *in a quote* | | | all gold and silver | | | | for Pope | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient for=obl | 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 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/59/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/59/51/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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