--- title: It seems "that on the other side of the ocean stands an oak, and on… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: It seems "that on the other side of the ocean stands an oak, and on the oak a coffer, and in the coffer a hare, and in the hare a duck, and in the duck an egg, and in the egg the love of the Queen-Maiden." Who acts: It. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/78/) [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/) / 78 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 78 It seems "that on the other side of the ocean stands an oak, and on the oak a coffer, and in the coffer a hare, and in the hare a duck, and in the duck an egg, and in the egg the love of the Queen-Maiden." **Who acts:** It · **What happens:** seem, stand, love · **To what, where:** that, other side, Queen Maiden 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 (It), 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:pg22373:25:78 # text = It seems "that on the other side of the ocean stands an oak, and on the oak a coffer, and in the coffer a hare, and in the hare a duck, and in the duck an egg, and in the egg the love of the Queen-Maiden." 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 obj _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 oak oak NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 oak oak NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 coffer coffer NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 coffer coffer NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 hare hare NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 hare hare NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 duck duck NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 duck duck NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 41 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod _ _ 50 of of ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 52 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 53 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 54 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 Maiden Maiden PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 " " PUNCT '' _ 47 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seem** | present | It | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **stand** *in a quote* | present | | that | | the other side of the ocean | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent that=Theme oak=Destination | | 3 | **love** *in a quote* | | | the Queen Maiden | | | | | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/79/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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