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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/) / 34 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 34 One of the strangest of the stories which turn on this idea of an external heart is the Samoyed tale,\[135\] in which seven brothers are in the habit, every night, of taking out their hearts and sleeping without them. **Who acts:** stories, One, seven brothers · **What happens:** turn, be, take out, sleep · **To what, where:** idea, Samoyed tale, habit, hearts 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 (stories, One, seven brothers), 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:pg22373:25:34 # text = One of the strangest of the stories which turn on this idea of an external heart is the Samoyed tale,[135] in which seven brothers are in the habit, every night, of taking out their hearts and sleeping without them. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 strangest strange ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 1 nmod _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 12 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 external external ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 Samoyed samoyed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 135 135 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 28 det _ _ 27 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 habit habit NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 35 det _ _ 35 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 of of SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 38 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 parataxis _ _ 39 out out ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 hearts heart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 sleeping sleep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 conj _ _ 44 without without ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | present | the stories | | | this idea of a external heart | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on idea=Trajectory | | 2 | **is a** | present | One of the strangest | the Samoyed tale | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | which seven brothers | | | the habit | | | tree rules | | 4 | **take out** | gerund | | brothers's hearts | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | | 5 | **sleep** | gerund | | | | | | without brothers *= brother* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/35/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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