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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/20/) / 1 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 1 The skazka of Ivan Buikovich (Bull's son)\[81\] contains a variant of part of this story, but the dragon which the Slavonic St. George kills is called, not a snake, but a Chudo-Yudo. **Who acts:** skazka, Slavonic George, part · **What happens:** contain, kill, call, vary · **To what, where:** variant, dragon · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skazka, Slavonic George, part), 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:pg22373:20:1 # text = The skazka of Ivan Buikovich (Bull's son)[81] contains a variant of part of this story, but the dragon which the Slavonic St. George kills is called, not a snake, but a Chudo-Yudo. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 skazka skazka NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ivan Ivan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 Buikovich Buikovich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 Bull Bull PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 81 81 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 14 contains contain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 variant variant NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 det _ _ 21 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 obj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 Slavonic Slavonic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 flat _ _ 29 St. St. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod:desc _ _ 30 George George PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 kills kill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 39 but but CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 41 Chudo Chudo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 Yudo Yudo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **contain** | present | the skazka of Ivan | a variant of part of this story | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot variant=Theme | | 2 | **kill** | present | the Slavonic George St. | the dragon | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | | 3 | **call** | present · passive | | the dragon | | | | a Chudo Yudo *obl* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 4 | **vary** | | part of this story | | | | | | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=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 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: [Chapter II. 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