--- title: The Esthonian tale of the "Wife-murderer" (Loewe's "Ehstnische Maerc… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: The Esthonian tale of the "Wife-murderer" (Loewe's "Ehstnische Maerchen," No. 20) is remarkably--not to say suspiciously--like that French story of Blue Beard which has so often made our young blood run cold. Who acts: Esthonian tale, French story, young blood, Wife murderer. A sentence of «Russian --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/23/109/) [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/) / 109 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 109 The Esthonian tale of the "Wife-murderer" (Loewe's "Ehstnische Maerchen," No. 20) is remarkably--not to say suspiciously--like that French story of Blue Beard which has so often made our young blood run cold. **Who acts:** Esthonian tale, French story, young blood, Wife murderer · **What happens:** be, not say, have, make, run, tell · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Esthonian tale, French story, young blood, Wife murderer), 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:pg22373:23:109 # text = The Esthonian tale of the "Wife-murderer" (Loewe's "Ehstnische Maerchen," No. 20) is remarkably--not to say suspiciously--like that French story of Blue Beard which has so often made our young blood run cold. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Esthonian Esthonian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 Wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 murderer murderer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Loewe Loewe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Ehstnische Ehstnische PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 Maerchen Maerchen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 No. no. NOUN NN Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 20 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 remarkably remarkably ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 -- -- PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 28 suspiciously suspiciously ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 -- -- PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 like like ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 det _ _ 32 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 parataxis _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 Blue Blue ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 Beard Beard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 38 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 parataxis _ _ 39 so so ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 40 often often ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 xcomp _ _ 42 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 43 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 conj _ _ 46 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the Esthonian tale of the Wife murderer | | | | | remarkably *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | | | | suspiciously *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** | present | that French story of Blue Beard | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | participle | that French story of Blue Beard *not said here* | | | | | often *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 5 | **run** | present | our young blood | | | | | cold *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **tell** | | the Wife murderer | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/23/108/) - next →: [sentence 110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/23/110/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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