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title: ‘Prince Ivan has come and carried off Marya Morevna.’ — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Prince Ivan has come and carried off Marya Morevna.’ Who acts: Prince Ivan. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 121

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‘Prince Ivan has come and carried off Marya Morevna.’

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**Who acts:** Prince Ivan · **What happens:** come, carry off · **To what, where:** Marya

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg540:7:121
# text = ‘Prince Ivan has come and carried off Marya Morevna.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	Marya	Marya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	Morevna	Morevna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present · perfect | Prince Ivan |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **carry off** | participle | Prince Ivan *not said here* | Marya |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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