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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/) / 9 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 9 In one of the descriptions of Koshchei's death, he is said to be killed by a blow on the forehead inflicted by the mysterious egg--that last link in the magic chain by which his life is darkly bound. **Who acts:** blow, life, Koshchei · **What happens:** say, kill, inflict, be, describe, die · **To what, where:** nature, forehead, darkly bound, death · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (blow, life, Koshchei), 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:pg22373:25:9 # text = In one of the descriptions of Koshchei's death, he is said to be killed by a blow on the forehead inflicted by the mysterious egg--that last link in the magic chain by which his life is darkly bound. 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 descriptions description NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 Koshchei Koshchei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 xcomp _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 forehead forehead NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 inflicted inflict VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 mysterious mysterious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 -- -- PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 det _ _ 30 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 link link NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 magic magic NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 36 by by ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 obl _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 41 darkly darkly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 bound bound NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | nature | | | | in one of the descriptions of Koshchei's death | tree rules | | 2 | **kill** | to-infinitive · passive | a blow on the forehead and that last link in the magic chain | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **inflict** | participle | | the forehead *not said here* | | | | by the mysterious egg | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | nature's life | darkly bound | | | | by that last link in the magic chain | tree rules | | 5 | **describe** | | | Koshchei's death | | | | | nom description «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **die** | | Koshchei | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/10/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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