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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 80

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Thus, in one of the Indian stories which correspond to that of Norka, the hero's success at court "excited the envy and jealousy of his brothers \[doubtless half-brothers\], and they were not satisfied until they had devised a plan to effect his removal, and, as they hoped, accomplish his destruction."

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**Who acts:** Indian stories, brothers, hero · **What happens:** correspond, not be, devise, hope, accomplish, remove · **To what, where:** Norka, plan, destruction

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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 (Indian stories, brothers, hero), 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:pg22373:21:80
# text = Thus, in one of the Indian stories which correspond to that of Norka, the hero's success at court "excited the envy and jealousy of his brothers [doubtless half-brothers], and they were not satisfied until they had devised a plan to effect his removal, and, as they hoped, accomplish his destruction."
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	correspond	correspond	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Norka	Norka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	excited	excited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	envy	envy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	doubtless	doubtless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
33	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
43	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	devised	devise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	42	advcl	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	removal	removal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
56	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
57	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
60	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	conj	_	_
61	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
62	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **correspond** | present | the Indian stories |  | Norka |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | satisfied *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **devise** *in a quote* | past · perfect | brothers *= brother* | a plan and effect |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient |
| 4 | **hope** *in a quote* | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **accomplish** *in a quote* | infinitive | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | hero's destruction |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent destruction=Eventuality |
| 6 | **remove** *in a quote* |  | hero |  |  |  |  |  | nom removal «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **destroy** *in a quote* |  | hero |  |  |  |  |  | nom destruction «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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