--- title: In the Bohemian story of "The Sun-horse"[129] a Warlock's "strength"… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: In the Bohemian story of "The Sun-horse"[129] a Warlock's "strength" lies in an egg, which is within a duck, which is within a stag, which is under a tree. Who acts: strength, egg, duck, stag. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/23/) [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/) / 23 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 23 In the Bohemian story of "The Sun-horse"\[129\] a Warlock's "strength" lies in an egg, which is within a duck, which is within a stag, which is under a tree. **Who acts:** strength, egg, duck, stag · **What happens:** lie, be · **To what, where:** Bohemian story, tree 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 (strength, egg, duck, stag), 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:pg22373:25:23 # text = In the Bohemian story of "The Sun-horse"[129] a Warlock's "strength" lies in an egg, which is within a duck, which is within a stag, which is under a tree. 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Bohemian Bohemian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 129 129 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Warlock Warlock PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 within within ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 duck duck NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 34 within within ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 stag stag NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 nsubj _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 40 under under ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | present | a Warlock's strength | | | the Bohemian story of the Sun horse | | in a egg and a duck and a stag and a tree | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in story=Location | | 2 | **is** | present | a egg and a duck and a stag and a tree | | | | | within a duck and a stag and a tree | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | a duck and a stag and a tree | | | | | within a stag and a tree | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | a stag and a tree | | | a tree | | | 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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/24/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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