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title: In a fourth,[111] in which the hero's three sisters marry three begg… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a fourth,[111] in which the hero's three sisters marry three beggars, who turn out to be snakes with twenty, thirty, and forty heads apiece, Koshchei is found in the forbidden chamber, seated on a horse which is chained to a cauldron. Who acts: three sisters, three beggars. A sentence of «Russian
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 92

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In a fourth,\[111\] in which the hero's three sisters marry three beggars, who turn out to be snakes with twenty, thirty, and forty heads apiece, Koshchei is found in the forbidden chamber, seated on a horse which is chained to a cauldron.

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**Who acts:** three sisters, three beggars · **What happens:** marry, turn out, be, find, forbid, seat · **To what, where:** 111, fourth, snakes, Koshchei, forbidden chamber, horse

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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 (three sisters, three beggars), 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:pg22373:23:92
# text = In a fourth,[111] in which the hero's three sisters marry three beggars, who turn out to be snakes with twenty, thirty, and forty heads apiece, Koshchei is found in the forbidden chamber, seated on a horse which is chained to a cauldron.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fourth	fourth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	111	111	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	marry	marry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	beggars	beggar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	xcomp	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	apiece	apiece	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	parataxis	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	forbidden	forbid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	amod	_	_
41	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	acl	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux:pass	_	_
49	chained	chain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	acl:relcl	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | present | the hero's three sisters | 111 |  | a fourth |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beggar=Patient |
| 2 | **turn out** | present | three beggars |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | three beggars *not said here* | snakes |  |  |  | with twenty | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | present · passive |  | Koshchei |  | the forbidden chamber |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 5 | **forbid** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 6 | **seat** | participle |  | the forbidden chamber *not said here* |  |  |  | on a horse | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
| 7 | **chain** | present · passive |  | a horse |  |  |  | to a cauldron | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to cauldron=Co-Patient |

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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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