--- title: [123] In another variant[124] Koshchei attempts to deceive his fair… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: [123] In another variant[124] Koshchei attempts to deceive his fair captive, pretending that his "death" resides in a besom, or in a fence, both of which she adorns with gold in token of her love. Who acts: Koshchei, death, fence, hare. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/) / 11 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 11 \[123\] In another variant\[124\] Koshchei attempts to deceive his fair captive, pretending that his "death" resides in a besom, or in a fence, both of which she adorns with gold in token of her love. **Who acts:** Koshchei, death, fence, hare · **What happens:** attempt, deceive, pretend, reside, adorn, die · **To what, where:** 123, fair captive, besom, token 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 (Koshchei, death, fence, hare), 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:pg22373:25:11 # text = [123] In another variant[124] Koshchei attempts to deceive his fair captive, pretending that his "death" resides in a besom, or in a fence, both of which she adorns with gold in token of her love. 1 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 123 123 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 4 In in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 6 det _ _ 6 variant variant NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 124 124 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 10 Koshchei Koshchei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 attempts attempt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 deceive deceive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 captive captive NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 pretending pretend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 resides reside VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 besom besom NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 36 nsubj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 37 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 adorns adorn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 token token NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **attempt** | present | Koshchei | 123 in another variant | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **deceive** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Koshchei *not said here* | hare's fair captive | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captive=Patient | | 3 | **pretend** | gerund | Koshchei *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **reside** | present | hare's death | | | a besom | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in besom=Location | | 5 | **adorn** | present | a fence | | | token of death's love | | with gold | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme | | 6 | **die** *in a quote* | | hare | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **love** | | death | | | | | | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/12/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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