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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 41

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No. 6, in which Norka is replaced by a witch who breaks the windows of a church, and is wounded, in falcon-shape, by the youngest brother--Hahn, No. 70, in which a Drakos, as a cloud, steals golden apples, a story closely resembling the Russian skazka.

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**Who acts:** witch, Drakos, story · **What happens:** replace, break, be, steal, resemble · **To what, where:** Norka, No., windows, golden apples, Russian skazka

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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 (witch, Drakos, story), 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:pg22373:21:41
# text = No. 6, in which Norka is replaced by a witch who breaks the windows of a church, and is wounded, in falcon-shape, by the youngest brother--Hahn, No. 70, in which a Drakos, as a cloud, steals golden apples, a story closely resembling the Russian skazka.
1	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
6	Norka	Norka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	replaced	replace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	amod	_	_
32	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Hahn	Hahn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	No.	No.	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	37	nmod:unmarked	_	_
37	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	obl	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Drakos	Drakos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	as	as	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
48	steals	steal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
49	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	_
54	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	resembling	resemble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	53	acl	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	skazka	skazka	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **replace** | present · passive | a witch | Norka |  | No. |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **break** | present | a witch | the windows of a church |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer window=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | wounded *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **steal** | present | a Drakos | golden apples and a story |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location apple=Theme |
| 5 | **resemble** | gerund | a story *not said here* | the Russian skazka |  |  |  | closely *property* | 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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