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LEGENDS, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/60/) / 60 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 60 In a Russian version,\[469\] the unwashed soldier lends a large sum of money to an impoverished monarch, who cannot pay his troops, and asks his royal creditor to give him one of his daughters in marriage by way of recompense. **Who acts:** unwashed soldier, impoverished monarch · **What happens:** lend, impoverish, not pay, ask, give, sum · **To what, where:** large sum, impoverished monarch, Russian version, troops, royal creditor, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unwashed soldier, impoverished monarch), 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:pg22373:60:60 # text = In a Russian version,[469] the unwashed soldier lends a large sum of money to an impoverished monarch, who cannot pay his troops, and asks his royal creditor to give him one of his daughters in marriage by way of recompense. 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Russian Russian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 version version NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 469 469 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 unwashed unwashed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 lends lend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 sum sum NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 impoverished impoverish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 amod _ _ 21 monarch monarch NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl:relcl _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 troops troops NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 26 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 creditor creditor NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ _ 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 iobj _ _ 38 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 obj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 marriage marriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 44 by by ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 recompense recompense NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lend** | present | the unwashed soldier | a large sum of money | a impoverished monarch | a Russian version | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sum=Theme to monarch=Recipient | | 2 | **impoverish** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **pay** | can | a impoverished monarch | | soldier's troops | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent troops=Asset | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the unwashed soldier *not said here* | soldier's royal creditor | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent creditor=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | one of soldier's daughters in marriage | soldier | | | by way of recompense | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient one=Theme | | 6 | **sum** | | | money | | | | | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/60/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/60/61/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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