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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 62

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Going in search of her, he comes to the home of an enchantress, who invites him to tea and gives him leave to inspect her house.

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**Who acts:** man, enchantress · **What happens:** go, come, invite, give, leave, inspect · **To what, where:** search, home, man, house, princess

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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 (man, enchantress), 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:pg22373:25:62
# text = Going in search of her, he comes to the home of an enchantress, who invites him to tea and gives him leave to inspect her house.
1	Going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	invites	invite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	inspect	inspect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  | search of princess |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location |
| 2 | **come** | present | man |  |  | the home of a enchantress |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **invite** | present | a enchantress |  | man |  |  | to tea | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 4 | **give** | present | a enchantress *not said here* |  | man |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **leave** | infinitive | a enchantress *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **inspect** | to-infinitive | a enchantress *not said here* | princess's house |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 7 | **search** |  |  | princess |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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