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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 27

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In a Modern Greek tale the life of a dragon or other baleful being comes to an end simultaneously with the lives of three pigeons which are shut up in an all but inaccessible chamber,\[131\] or inclosed within a wild boar.

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**Who acts:** life · **What happens:** come, shut up, inclose · **To what, where:** 131, Modern Greek tale, three pigeons

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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 (life), 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:pg22373:25:27
# text = In a Modern Greek tale the life of a dragon or other baleful being comes to an end simultaneously with the lives of three pigeons which are shut up in an all but inaccessible chamber,[131] or inclosed within a wild boar.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	baleful	baleful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
14	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
15	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	simultaneously	simultaneously	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	conj	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	inaccessible	inaccessible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	131	131	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	38	punct	_	_
40	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	inclosed	inclose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	conj	_	_
42	within	within	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | the life of a dragon | 131 |  | a Modern Greek tale | to a end | with the lives of three pigeons; simultaneously *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **shut up** | present · passive |  | three pigeons |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **inclose** | participle | the life of a dragon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | within a wild boar | 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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