--- title: Like the vital centre of "the giant who had no heart in his body" in… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Like the vital centre of "the giant who had no heart in his body" in the well-known Norse tale, it is something extraneous to the being whom it affects, and until it is destroyed he may set all ordinary means of annihilation at defiance. Who acts: vital centre, body, centre. A sentence of «Russian F --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/106/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/) / 106 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 106 Like the vital centre of "the giant who had no heart in his body" in the well-known Norse tale, it is something extraneous to the being whom it affects, and until it is destroyed he may set all ordinary means of annihilation at defiance. **Who acts:** vital centre, body, centre · **What happens:** have, know, be, affect, destroy, set · **To what, where:** heart, body, something, ordinary · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vital centre, body, centre), 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:pg22373:21:106 # text = Like the vital centre of "the giant who had no heart in his body" in the well-known Norse tale, it is something extraneous to the being whom it affects, and until it is destroyed he may set all ordinary means of annihilation at defiance. 1 Like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 vital vital ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 5 of of SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 acl _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 11 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 12 det _ _ 12 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 19 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 amod _ _ 22 Norse norse ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 23 appos _ _ 28 extraneous extraneous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 cop _ _ 32 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 obl _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 affects affect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 37 until until SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 destroyed destroy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 advcl _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 44 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 45 det _ _ 45 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 obj _ _ 46 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 annihilation annihilation NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 49 at at ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 defiance defiance NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 46 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | the vital centre | no heart | | centre's body | | in the known Norse tale | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | | 2 | **know** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is a** | present | body | something | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **affect** | present | body | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **destroy** | present · passive | | body | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 7 | **set** | may | centre | all ordinary | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient ordinary=Result | | 8 | **mean** | present | the vital centre | | | | | of annihilation at defiance | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/105/) - next →: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/107/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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