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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 36

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To his abode, whether in the bowels of the earth, or in the open light of day--whether it be a sumptuous palace or "an \_izba\_ on fowl's legs," a hut upheld by slender supports on which it turns as on a pivot--he carries off his prey.

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**Who acts:** earth, outline · **What happens:** be, uphold, turn, carry off, light · **To what, where:** sumptuous palace, legs, hut, slender supports, prey, abode

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth, outline), 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:pg22373:19:36
# text = To his abode, whether in the bowels of the earth, or in the open light of day--whether it be a sumptuous palace or "an _izba_ on fowl's legs," a hut upheld by slender supports on which it turns as on a pivot--he carries off his prey.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	abode	abode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bowels	bowel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	sumptuous	sumptuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	izba	izba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	36	punct	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	fowl	fowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
41	upheld	uphold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	acl	_	_
42	by	by	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	supports	support	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
45	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	obl	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
49	as	as	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	on	on	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	pivot	pivot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
56	off	off	ADP	RP	_	55	compound:prt	_	_
57	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	55	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | infinitive | earth | a sumptuous palace or a \_ izba |  | fowl's legs and a hut |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **uphold** | participle |  | a hut *not said here* |  |  |  | by slender supports | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn** | present | earth |  |  | slender supports |  | as a pivot | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on which=Trajectory |
| 4 | **carry off** | present | outline | outline's prey |  | outline's abode and the bowels of the earth or the open light of day and a sumptuous palace or a \_ izba |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent prey=Theme to abode=Destination |
| 5 | **light** |  |  | day |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «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.

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