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title: Then the Snake cried to the Raven, "Fly, and tell my wife to come an… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Snake cried to the Raven, "Fly, and tell my wife to come and devour Ivan Popyalof." Who acts: Snake. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 86

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Then the Snake cried to the Raven, "Fly, and tell my wife to come and devour Ivan Popyalof."

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**Who acts:** Snake · **What happens:** cry, fly, tell, come, devour · **To what, where:** Raven, wife, Ivan · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Snake), 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:pg22373:19:86
# text = Then the Snake cried to the Raven, "Fly, and tell my wife to come and devour Ivan Popyalof."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Snake	Snake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Raven	Raven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	devour	devour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
20	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	Popyalof	Popyalof	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the Snake |  | the Raven |  | then |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to raven=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fly** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Snake *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | my wife |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **come** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **devour** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Ivan |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ivan=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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