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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 82

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The Princess, Marya Morevna, who slaughters whole armies before she is married, and then becomes mild and gentle, belongs to a class of heroines who frequently occur both in the stories and in the "metrical romances," and to whom may be applied the remarks made by Kemble with reference to a similar Amazon.

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**Who acts:** Princess, slaughters, heroines · **What happens:** slaughter, marry, become, belong, occur, apply · **To what, where:** Marya, stories, remarks

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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 (Princess, slaughters, heroines), 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:pg22373:23:82
# text = The Princess, Marya Morevna, who slaughters whole armies before she is married, and then becomes mild and gentle, belongs to a class of heroines who frequently occur both in the stories and in the "metrical romances," and to whom may be applied the remarks made by Kemble with reference to a similar Amazon.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Marya	Marya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	Morevna	Morevna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	slaughters	slaughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	heroines	heroine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	occur	occur	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc:preconj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	metrical	metrical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	romances	romance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	49	obl	_	_
47	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
48	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	aux:pass	_	_
49	applied	apply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obj	_	_
52	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	acl	_	_
53	by	by	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	Kemble	Kemble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	obl:agent	_	_
55	with	with	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
57	to	to	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slaughter** |  | the Princess and Marya and slaughters and whole armies |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **marry** | present · passive | slaughters and whole armies *not said here* | Marya |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **become** | present | the Princess and Marya and slaughters and whole armies |  |  |  | then | mild *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **belong** | present | the Princess and Marya and slaughters and whole armies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a class of heroines | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **occur** | present | heroines | the stories and the metrical romances |  |  |  | frequently *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **apply** | may · passive | the Princess and Marya and slaughters and whole armies *not said here* | the remarks |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: remark=Theme |
| 7 | **make** | participle |  | the remarks *not said here* |  |  |  | with reference to a similar Amazon | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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