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title: [122] In another version of the same story, but told of a Snake, the… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: [122] In another version of the same story, but told of a Snake, the fatal blow is struck by a small stone found in the yolk of an egg, which is inside a duck, which is inside a hare, which is inside a stone, which is on an island [_i.e._, the fabulous island Buyan]. Who acts: small stone, yolk, duc
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 10

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\[122\] In another version of the same story, but told of a Snake, the fatal blow is struck by a small stone found in the yolk of an egg, which is inside a duck, which is inside a hare, which is inside a stone, which is on an island \[\_i.e.\_, the fabulous island Buyan\].

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**Who acts:** small stone, yolk, duck, hare, stone · **What happens:** tell, strike, find, be · **To what, where:** fabulous island, fatal blow, small stone, yolk, stone, island · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (small stone, yolk, duck, hare), 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:pg22373:25:10
# text = [122] In another version of the same story, but told of a Snake, the fatal blow is struck by a small stone found in the yolk of an egg, which is inside a duck, which is inside a hare, which is inside a stone, which is on an island [_i.e._, the fabulous island Buyan].
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	122	122	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	ccomp	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	yolk	yolk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
37	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
43	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj	_	_
48	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
49	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
53	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	57	nsubj	_	_
54	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	57	cop	_	_
55	on	on	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	_
58	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	57	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
64	fabulous	fabulous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	amod	_	_
65	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
66	Buyan	Buyan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	65	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	66	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  | the fabulous island |  |  |  | of a Snake | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **strike** | present · passive | a small stone | the fatal blow |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **find** | participle |  | a small stone *not said here* |  | the yolk of a egg and a duck and a hare |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | the yolk of a egg and a duck and a hare |  |  |  |  | inside a duck and a hare | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | a duck and a hare |  |  |  |  | inside a hare | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present | a hare |  |  | a stone and a island |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | present | a stone and a island |  |  | a island |  |  | tree rules |

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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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