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description: In a Greek story (Hahn, ii. p. 197) the hero discovers in the one-and-fortieth room of a castle belonging to a Drakos, who had given him leave to enter forty only, a magic horse, and before the door of the room he finds a pool of gold in which he becomes gilded. Who acts: hero, castle, Drakos. A sen
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 116

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In a Greek story (Hahn, ii. p. 197) the hero discovers in the one-and-fortieth room of a castle belonging to a Drakos, who had given him leave to enter forty only, a magic horse, and before the door of the room he finds a pool of gold in which he becomes gilded.

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**Who acts:** hero, castle, Drakos · **What happens:** discover, belong, give, leave, enter, find · **To what, where:** Greek story, hero, forty, pool

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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 (hero, castle, Drakos), 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:pg22373:23:116
# text = In a Greek story (Hahn, ii. p. 197) the hero discovers in the one-and-fortieth room of a castle belonging to a Drakos, who had given him leave to enter forty only, a magic horse, and before the door of the room he finds a pool of gold in which he becomes gilded.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Hahn	Hahn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	ii	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
10	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
11	197	197	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	discovers	discover	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	fortieth	fortieth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Drakos	Drakos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	parataxis	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	iobj	_	_
36	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	obj	_	_
40	only	only	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
47	before	before	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	_
59	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	62	obl	_	_
61	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
62	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	56	acl:relcl	_	_
63	gilded	gild	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	62	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** | present | the hero |  |  | a Greek story |  | in the fortieth room of a castle | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **belong** | gerund | a castle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a Drakos and a magic horse | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past · perfect | a Drakos and a magic horse |  | hero |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | infinitive | a Drakos and a magic horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **enter** | to-infinitive | a Drakos and a magic horse *not said here* | forty |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forty=Destination |
| 6 | **find** | present | hero | a pool of gold |  |  | before the door of the room |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pool=Topic |
| 7 | **become** | present | hero |  |  | a pool of gold |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **gild** | participle | hero *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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