--- title: She seizes, not the ducat, but his outstretched hand, and in a momen… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: She seizes, not the ducat, but his outstretched hand, and in a moment whisks him off underground to her husband, an Aged One, whose appearance is that of the mythical being whom the Servians call the Vy. Who acts: mother, appearance, Servians. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/20/22/) [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/) / 22 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 22 She seizes, not the ducat, but his outstretched hand, and in a moment whisks him off underground to her husband, an Aged One, whose appearance is that of the mythical being whom the Servians call the Vy. **Who acts:** mother, appearance, Servians · **What happens:** seize, whisk off, be, call · **To what, where:** ducat, Ivan, Vy · **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 (mother, appearance, Servians), 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:pg22373:20:22 # text = She seizes, not the ducat, but his outstretched hand, and in a moment whisks him off underground to her husband, an Aged One, whose appearance is that of the mythical being whom the Servians call the Vy. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 seizes seize VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 ducat ducat NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 outstretched outstretched ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 17 whisks whisk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 off off ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 20 underground underground ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 Aged aged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 One one NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 29 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 appearance appearance NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 mythical mythical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 cop _ _ 37 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 conj _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Servians Servian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 40 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 Vy Vy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seize** | present | mother | the ducat | | | | Ivan's outstretched hand *obl* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **whisk off** | present | mother *not said here* | Ivan | | | moment | to mother's husband; underground *property* | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to husband=Co-Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | appearance | | | | | of mother's husband | tree rules | | 4 | **call** | present | the Servians | | the Vy | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent vy=Recipient | 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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/20/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/20/23/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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