--- title: In oriental tales the hero is often the son of a king's youngest wif… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: In oriental tales the hero is often the son of a king's youngest wife, and he is not unnaturally hated by his half-brothers, the sons of an older queen, whom the hero's mother has supplanted in their royal father's affections. Who acts: hero, half brothers. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/78/) [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/) / 78 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 78 In oriental tales the hero is often the son of a king's youngest wife, and he is not unnaturally hated by his half-brothers, the sons of an older queen, whom the hero's mother has supplanted in their royal father's affections. **Who acts:** hero, half brothers · **What happens:** be, not hate, supplant · **To what, where:** son, oriental tales, hero, mother, affections 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 (hero, half brothers), 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:pg22373:21:78 # text = In oriental tales the hero is often the son of a king's youngest wife, and he is not unnaturally hated by his half-brothers, the sons of an older queen, whom the hero's mother has supplanted in their royal father's affections. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 oriental oriental ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 hero hero NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 often often ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 15 amod _ _ 15 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 21 unnaturally unnaturally ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 hated hate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 25 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 27 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 appos _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 34 amod _ _ 34 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 36 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 42 obl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 hero hero NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 39 's 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 41 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 supplanted supplant VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl:relcl _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 44 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 45 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 47 's 's PART POS _ 46 case _ _ 48 affections affection NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the hero | the son | | oriental tales | | of a king's youngest wife; often *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **hate** | present · passive | hero's half brothers | hero | | | | unnaturally *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | | 3 | **supplant** | present · perfect · passive | | the hero's mother | | brothers's royal father's affections | | a older queen *obl* | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | 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 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/79/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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