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title: "Find out from Koshchei the Deathless whence he got so good a steed." — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Find out from Koshchei the Deathless whence he got so good a steed." Who acts: you, Deathless. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 153

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"Find out from Koshchei the Deathless whence he got so good a steed."

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**Who acts:** you, Deathless · **What happens:** find out, get · **To what, where:** Koshchei, good steed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Deathless), 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:pg22373:22:153
# text = "Find out from Koshchei the Deathless whence he got so good a steed."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Deathless	deathless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nsubj	_	_
8	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find out** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | Koshchei |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source how S»: agent=Agent from koshchei=Source clause=Topic |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | past | the Deathless | a good steed |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer steed=Stimulus |

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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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