--- title: In the Neapolitan story of "Le tre Corune" (Pentamerone, No. 36), th… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: In the Neapolitan story of "Le tre Corune" (Pentamerone, No. 36), the forbidden chamber contains "three maidens, clothed all in gold, sitting and seeming to slumber upon as many thrones" (Liebrecht's translation, ii. Who acts: forbidden chamber, three maidens, Liebrecht. A sentence of «Russian Fairy --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/23/107/) [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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/23/) / 107 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 107 In the Neapolitan story of "Le tre Corune" (Pentamerone, No. 36), the forbidden chamber contains "three maidens, clothed all in gold, sitting and seeming to slumber upon as many thrones" (Liebrecht's translation, ii. **Who acts:** forbidden chamber, three maidens, Liebrecht · **What happens:** forbid, contain, clothe, sit, seem, slumber · **To what, where:** three maidens, Neapolitan story, gold This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forbidden chamber, three maidens, Liebrecht), 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:pg22373:23:107 # text = In the Neapolitan story of "Le tre Corune" (Pentamerone, No. 36), the forbidden chamber contains "three maidens, clothed all in gold, sitting and seeming to slumber upon as many thrones" (Liebrecht's translation, ii. 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Neapolitan Neapolitan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 Le Le PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 tre Tre PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Corune Corune PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Pentamerone Pentamerone PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 No. No. PROPN NNP Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing 15 nmod:unmarked _ _ 15 36 36 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 forbidden forbid VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 amod _ _ 20 chamber chamber NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 contains contain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 maidens maiden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 clothed clothe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 27 all all ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 advcl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 seeming seem VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 slumber slumber VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 upon upon ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 as as ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 thrones throne NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 41 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 Liebrecht Liebrecht PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 43 's 's PART POS _ 42 case _ _ 44 translation translation NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 ii II NUM CD NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card 44 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **forbid** | participle | | | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 2 | **contain** | present | the forbidden chamber | three maidens | | the Neapolitan story of Le tre Corune | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent maiden=Value in story=Location | | 3 | **clothe** *in a quote* | participle | three maidens *not said here* | gold | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Patient | | 4 | **sit** *in a quote* | gerund | the forbidden chamber *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **seem** *in a quote* | gerund | the forbidden chamber *not said here* | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **slumber** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the forbidden chamber *not said here* | | | | | upon many thrones | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **translate** | | Liebrecht | | | | | | nom translation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/23/106/) - next →: [sentence 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/23/108/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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