--- title: But as a general rule it is some queen or princess whom he tears awa… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: But as a general rule it is some queen or princess whom he tears away from her home, as Pluto carried off Proserpina, and who remains with him reluctantly, and hails as her rescuer the hero who comes to give him battle. Who acts: rule, outline, Pluto, hero. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/19/38/) [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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/19/) / 38 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 38 But as a general rule it is some queen or princess whom he tears away from her home, as Pluto carried off Proserpina, and who remains with him reluctantly, and hails as her rescuer the hero who comes to give him battle. **Who acts:** rule, outline, Pluto, hero · **What happens:** be, tear away, carry off, remain, come, give · **To what, where:** queen, Proserpina, hails, battle, outline 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 (rule, outline, Pluto, hero), 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:pg22373:19:38 # text = But as a general rule it is some queen or princess whom he tears away from her home, as Pluto carried off Proserpina, and who remains with him reluctantly, and hails as her rescuer the hero who comes to give him battle. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 as as ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 general general ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ _ 9 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 obj _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 tears tear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 15 away away ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 as as SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 Pluto Pluto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 23 off off ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Proserpina Proserpina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 remains remain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 31 reluctantly reluctantly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 hails hail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 35 as as ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 rescuer rescuer NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 hero hero NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 appos _ _ 40 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 41 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ _ 44 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 iobj _ _ 45 battle battle NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | rule | some queen or princess | | | | as a general rule | tree rules | | 2 | **tear away** | present | outline | some queen or princess | | | | from princess's home; away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent whom=Patient from home=Co-Patient | | 3 | **carry off** | past | Pluto | Proserpina | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proserpina=Theme | | 4 | **remain** | present | | hails as Pluto's rescuer | | | | with outline; reluctantly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **come** | present | the hero | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **give** | to-infinitive | the hero *not said here* | battle | outline | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient battle=Theme | 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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/19/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/19/39/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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