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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/23/) / 89 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 89 Fedor eventually finds her, escapes with her on a magic foal which he obtains, thanks to the aid of grateful wolves, bees, and crayfish, and destroys the snake by striking it "on the forehead" with the stone which was destined to be its death. **Who acts:** Fedor, magic foal · **What happens:** find, escape, obtain, destroy, strike, destine · **To what, where:** Anastasia, crayfish, thanks, snake, Fair, stone 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 (Fedor, magic foal), 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:pg22373:23:89 # text = Fedor eventually finds her, escapes with her on a magic foal which he obtains, thanks to the aid of grateful wolves, bees, and crayfish, and destroys the snake by striking it "on the forehead" with the stone which was destined to be its death. 1 Fedor Fedor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 eventually eventually ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 escapes escape VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 magic magic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 foal foal NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 obtains obtain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 aid aid NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 grateful grateful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 crayfish crayfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 destroys destroy VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 by by SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 striking strike VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 forehead forehead NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 45 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 47 nsubj:pass _ _ 46 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux:pass _ _ 47 destined destine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 acl:relcl _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 51 mark _ _ 49 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 51 cop _ _ 50 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 51 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | present | Fedor | Anastasia | | | | eventually *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | | 2 | **escape** | present | Fedor *not said here* | crayfish | | | | with Anastasia; on a magic foal | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **obtain** | present | a magic foal | thanks to the aid of grateful wolves and bees | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **destroy** | present | Fedor *not said here* | the snake | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Patient | | 5 | **strike** | gerund | Fedor *not said here* | Fair | | | | on the forehead with the stone | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Instrument on forehead=Patient | | 6 | **destine** | past · passive | | the stone | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **is a** | to-infinitive | | Fair's death | | | | | tree rules | 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 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/23/88/) - next →: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/23/90/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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