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title: He "lies on an iron couch, and sees nothing; his long eyelashes and… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: He "lies on an iron couch, and sees nothing; his long eyelashes and thick eyebrows completely hide his eyes," but he sends for "twelve mighty heroes," and orders them to take iron forks and lift up the hair about his eyes, and then he gazes at the destroyer of his family. Who acts: Ivan, long eyelas
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 23

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He "lies on an iron couch, and sees nothing; his long eyelashes and thick eyebrows completely hide his eyes," but he sends for "twelve mighty heroes," and orders them to take iron forks and lift up the hair about his eyes, and then he gazes at the destroyer of his family.

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**Who acts:** Ivan, long eyelashes · **What happens:** lie, see, hide, send, order, take · **To what, where:** iron couch, nothing, eyes, iron forks, hair

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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: who acts (Ivan, long eyelashes), 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:pg22373:20:23
# text = He "lies on an iron couch, and sees nothing; his long eyelashes and thick eyebrows completely hide his eyes," but he sends for "twelve mighty heroes," and orders them to take iron forks and lift up the hair about his eyes, and then he gazes at the destroyer of his family.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	couch	couch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	eyelashes	eyelash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
31	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	orders	order	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
40	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	forks	fork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	lift	lift	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
44	up	up	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
47	about	about	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
52	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	54	advmod	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	gazes	gaze	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
55	at	at	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	destroyer	destroyer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
60	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** *in a quote* | present | Ivan |  |  | a iron couch |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on couch=Location |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | present | Ivan *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hide** *in a quote* | present | Ivan's long eyelashes and thick eyebrows | Ivan's eyes |  |  |  | completely *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 4 | **send** | present | Ivan |  |  |  |  | for twelve mighty heroes | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **order** | present | Ivan *not said here* |  | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Ivan *not said here* | iron forks |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fork=Theme |
| 7 | **lift up** | present | Ivan *not said here* | the hair |  |  |  | about Ivan's eyes | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hair=Theme about eye=Destination |
| 8 | **gaze** | present | Ivan |  |  |  | then | at the destroyer of Ivan's family | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at destroyer=Theme |

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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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