--- title: Her youngest son climbs the hill by the aid of iron hooks, kills Vik… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Her youngest son climbs the hill by the aid of iron hooks, kills Vikhor, and lowers his mother and three other ladies whom he has rescued, by means of a rope made of strips of hide. Who acts: youngest son. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. M --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/3/) [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/) / 3 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 3 Her youngest son climbs the hill by the aid of iron hooks, kills Vikhor, and lowers his mother and three other ladies whom he has rescued, by means of a rope made of strips of hide. **Who acts:** youngest son · **What happens:** climb, kill, lower, rescue, mean, make · **To what, where:** hill, Vikhor, mother, three other ladies, rope 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 (youngest son), 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:pg22373:25:3 # text = Her youngest son climbs the hill by the aid of iron hooks, kills Vikhor, and lowers his mother and three other ladies whom he has rescued, by means of a rope made of strips of hide. 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 climbs climb VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 aid aid NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 hooks hook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 kills kill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 Vikhor Vikhor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 lowers lower VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 23 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 25 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 rescued rescue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 by by ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 strips strip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 hide hide NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **climb** | present | Koshchei's youngest son | the hill | | | | by the aid of iron hooks | tree rules | | 2 | **kill** | present | Koshchei's youngest son *not said here* | Vikhor | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vikhor=Theme | | 3 | **lower** | present | | son's mother and three other ladies | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme | | 4 | **rescue** | present · perfect · passive | | three other ladies | | | | | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **mean** | present | | | | | | of a rope | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **make** | participle | | a rope *not said here* | | | | of strips of hide | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | 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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/4/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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