--- title: In the story of "Usuinya,"[96] for instance, there appears to be no… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: In the story of "Usuinya,"[96] for instance, there appears to be no relationship between these fair maidens and the "Usuinya-Bird," which steals the golden apples from a monarch's garden and is killed by his youngest son Ivan. Who acts: relationship, youngest son. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/93/) [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/) / 93 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 93 In the story of "Usuinya,"\[96\] for instance, there appears to be no relationship between these fair maidens and the "Usuinya-Bird," which steals the golden apples from a monarch's garden and is killed by his youngest son Ivan. **Who acts:** relationship, youngest son · **What happens:** appear, be, steal, kill · **To what, where:** relationship, golden apples, garden 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 (relationship, youngest son), 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:pg22373:21:93 # text = In the story of "Usuinya,"[96] for instance, there appears to be no relationship between these fair maidens and the "Usuinya-Bird," which steals the golden apples from a monarch's garden and is killed by his youngest son Ivan. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Usuinya Usuinya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 96 96 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 instance instance NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 16 expl _ _ 16 appears appear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 cop _ _ 19 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 20 det _ _ 20 relationship relationship NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 xcomp _ _ 21 between between ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 24 det _ _ 23 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 maidens maiden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 Usuinya Usuinya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 Bird Bird PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 steals steal VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 apples apple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 38 from from ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 monarch monarch NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 41 's 's PART POS _ 40 case _ _ 42 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux:pass _ _ 45 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 conj _ _ 46 by by ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 48 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 49 amod _ _ 49 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 50 Ivan Ivan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appear** | present | | | | there | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | | no relationship and the Usuinya Bird | | | | between this fair maidens | tree rules | | 3 | **steal** | present | no relationship and the Usuinya Bird | the golden apples | | a monarch's garden | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent apple=Theme from garden=Source | | 4 | **kill** | present · passive | Bird's youngest son | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/92/) - next →: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/94/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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