--- title: Each of them turned her palace into an egg--for they were all enchan… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Each of them turned her palace into an egg--for they were all enchantresses--and they taught him how to turn the eggs into palaces, and back again, and they handed over the eggs to him. Who acts: Each, heads. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/20/109/) [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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/20/) / 109 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 109 Each of them turned her palace into an egg--for they were all enchantresses--and they taught him how to turn the eggs into palaces, and back again, and they handed over the eggs to him. **Who acts:** Each, heads · **What happens:** turn, be, teach, hand · **To what, where:** palace, egg, Prince, eggs, palaces 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 (Each, heads), 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:pg22373:20:109 # text = Each of them turned her palace into an egg--for they were all enchantresses--and they taught him how to turn the eggs into palaces, and back again, and they handed over the eggs to him. 1 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 4 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nmod _ _ 4 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 -- -- PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 15 enchantresses enchantress NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 -- -- PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 taught teach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 palaces palace NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 back back ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 31 again again ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 handed hand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 36 over over ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | past | Each | sister's palace | | a egg and all enchantresses | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent palace=Theme into egg=Trajectory | | 2 | **is** | past | heads *= head* | | | | | for all enchantresses | tree rules | | 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | heads *= head* | | Prince | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **turn** | to-infinitive | heads *= head* *not said here* | the eggs | | palaces | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent egg=Theme into palace=Trajectory | | 5 | **hand** | past | heads *= head* | | Prince | the eggs | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination | 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 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/20/108/) - next →: [sentence 110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/20/110/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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