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description: Into that park there used to come a huge beast--Norka was its name--and do fearful mischief, devouring some of the animals every night. Who acts: Norka, name. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, with its dependency tree a
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 39

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Into that park there used to come a huge beast--Norka was its name--and do fearful mischief, devouring some of the animals every night.

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**Who acts:** Norka, name · **What happens:** use, come, be, do, devour · **To what, where:** park, huge beast, name, fearful mischief, some

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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 (Norka, name), 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:pg22373:20:39
# text = Into that park there used to come a huge beast--Norka was its name--and do fearful mischief, devouring some of the animals every night.
1	Into	into	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Norka	Norka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	devouring	devour	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | participle |  | that park *not said here* |  | there |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive |  | a huge beast |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beast=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Norka | park's name |  | that park |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | infinitive | park's name *not said here* | fearful mischief |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Eventuality |
| 5 | **devour** | gerund | park's name *not said here* | some |  |  | night |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient |

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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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