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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 14

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The "Chudo-Yudo wives" as the widows of the three monsters are called, then proceed to play the parts attributed in "Ivan Popyalof" to the Snake's daughters.

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**What happens:** call, proceed, play, attribute · **To what, where:** Chudo Yudo wives, parts, Ivan Popyalof · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg22373:20:14
# text = The "Chudo-Yudo wives" as the widows of the three monsters are called, then proceed to play the parts attributed in "Ivan Popyalof" to the Snake's daughters.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Chudo	Chudo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Yudo	Yudo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	widows	widow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	monsters	monster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	proceed	proceed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	attributed	attribute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Popyalof	Popyalof	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Snake	Snake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present · passive |  | the Chudo Yudo wives as the widows of the three monsters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **proceed** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **play** | to-infinitive |  | the parts |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 4 | **attribute** | participle |  | the parts *not said here* |  | Ivan Popyalof |  | to the Snake's daughters | tree rules |

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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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