--- title: So the devil turned apprentice, and he lived a month with him, and s… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So the devil turned apprentice, and he lived a month with him, and soon got to know all of the smith’s work better than the master himself; and, whatever the master could not do, he instantly carried out. Who acts: devil, master, smith. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/16/67/) [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 Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/16/) / 67 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 67 So the devil turned apprentice, and he lived a month with him, and soon got to know all of the smith’s work better than the master himself; and, whatever the master could not do, he instantly carried out. **Who acts:** devil, master, smith · **What happens:** turn, live, get, know, not do, carry out · **To what, where:** apprentice, all, whatever This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (devil, master, smith), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:16:67 # text = So the devil turned apprentice, and he lived a month with him, and soon got to know all of the smith’s work better than the master himself; and, whatever the master could not do, he instantly carried out. 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 devil Devil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 apprentice apprentice NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ _ 17 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 19 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 smith smith NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ’s 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 26 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 20 advmod _ _ 27 than than ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 34 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 39 obj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 37 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 instantly instantly ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ _ 44 out out ADP RP _ 43 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | past | the devil | apprentice | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent apprentice=Theme | | 2 | **live** | past | DEVIL | | | | month | with father | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location | | 3 | **get** | past | the devil *not said here* | | | | | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **know** | to-infinitive | the devil *not said here* | all of the smith's work | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus | | 5 | **not** **do** | could | the master | whatever | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality | | 6 | **carry out** | past | master | | | | | instantly *property* | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **work** | | the smith | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/16/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/16/68/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/16/)