--- title: In a Transylvanian-Saxon story[128] a Witch's "life" is a light whic… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: In a Transylvanian-Saxon story[128] a Witch's "life" is a light which burns in an egg, inside a duck, which swims on a pond, inside a mountain, and she dies when it is put out. Who acts: life, light, duck, _. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/22/) [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/) / 22 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 22 In a Transylvanian-Saxon story\[128\] a Witch's "life" is a light which burns in an egg, inside a duck, which swims on a pond, inside a mountain, and she dies when it is put out. **Who acts:** life, light, duck, \_ · **What happens:** be, burn, swim, die, put out · **To what, where:** light, egg, pond, life 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 (life, light, duck, \_), 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:pg22373:25:22 # text = In a Transylvanian-Saxon story[128] a Witch's "life" is a light which burns in an egg, inside a duck, which swims on a pond, inside a mountain, and she dies when it is put out. 1 In in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 3 Transylvanian Transylvanian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Saxon Saxon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 128 128 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Witch Witch PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 burns burn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 inside inside ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 duck duck NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 swims swim VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 inside inside ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 42 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 45 advmod _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj:pass _ _ 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux:pass _ _ 45 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 advcl _ _ 46 out out ADP RP _ 45 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | life | a Witch's light | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **burn** | present | a Witch's light | | | a egg | | inside a duck | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in egg=Location | | 3 | **swim** | present | a duck | | | a pond | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pond=Trajectory | | 4 | **die** | present | \_ | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **put out** | present · passive | | life | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | 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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/23/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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