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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/) / 31 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 31 Eventually the hero seizes the sparrow and wrings its neck, but not before he has obtained from it the charm necessary for the recovery of his missing brothers and a number of other victims of the dragon's cruelty. **Who acts:** hero, dragon, missing brothers · **What happens:** seize, wring, not obtain, recover · **To what, where:** sparrow, neck, charm, hero 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 (hero, dragon, missing brothers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg22373:1615`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:25:31 # text = Eventually the hero seizes the sparrow and wrings its neck, but not before he has obtained from it the charm necessary for the recovery of his missing brothers and a number of other victims of the dragon's cruelty. 1 Eventually eventually ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 hero hero NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 seizes seize 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 sparrow sparrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 wrings wring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 14 before before SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 obtained obtain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 charm charm NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 22 necessary necessary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 recovery recovery NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 missing missing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 victims victim NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 's 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 cruelty cruelty NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seize** | present | the hero | the sparrow | | | | eventually *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sparrow=Theme | | 2 | **wring** | present | the hero *not said here* | hero's neck | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient | | 3 | **not** **obtain** | present · perfect | dragon | the charm | | hero | | | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent charm=Theme from it=Source | | 4 | **recover** | | dragon's missing brothers and a number of other victims of the dragon's cruelty | | | | | | nom recovery «event intransitive»: of=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/32/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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