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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/) / 46 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 46 Among its wildest versions are the Albanian "Schlangenkind" (Hahn, No. 100), a very similar Roumanian tale (Ausland 1857, No. 43, quoted by Benfey), the Wallachian Trandafiru (Schott, No. 23, in which the husband is a pumpkin (\_Kuerbiss\_) by day), and the second of the Servian tales of the Snake-Husband (Vuk Karajich, No. 10).\] **Who acts:** husband, Snake Husband · **What happens:** be, quote, tell · **To what, where:** similar Roumanian tale, pumpkin, Schott · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, Snake Husband), 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:pg22373:26:46 # text = Among its wildest versions are the Albanian "Schlangenkind" (Hahn, No. 100), a very similar Roumanian tale (Ausland 1857, No. 43, quoted by Benfey), the Wallachian Trandafiru (Schott, No. 23, in which the husband is a pumpkin (_Kuerbiss_) by day), and the second of the Servian tales of the Snake-Husband (Vuk Karajich, No. 10).] 1 Among among ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 wildest wild ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 amod _ _ 4 versions version NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 Albanian Albanian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Schlangenkind schlangenkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Hahn Hahn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 No. No. PROPN NNP Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 15 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 very very ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 similar similar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 Roumanian Roumanian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 Ausland Ausland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 25 1857 1857 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 No. no. NOUN NN Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 28 43 43 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 quoted quote VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Benfey Benfey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 Wallachian Wallachian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 Trandafiru Trandafiru PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 38 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 Schott Schott PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 No. No. PROPN NNP Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing 42 nmod:unmarked _ _ 42 23 23 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 50 obl _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 48 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 cop _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 pumpkin pumpkin NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 appos _ _ 51 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 _ _ PUNCT `` _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 Kuerbiss Kuerbiss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 54 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 53 punct _ _ 56 by by ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 58 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 60 and and CCONJ CC _ 62 cc _ _ 61 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 62 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 appos _ _ 63 of of ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 64 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 66 det _ _ 65 Servian servian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 66 amod _ _ 66 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 62 nmod _ _ 67 of of ADP IN _ 71 case _ _ 68 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 71 det _ _ 69 Snake Snake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 71 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 70 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 69 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 71 Husband Husband PROPN NNP Number=Sing 66 nmod _ _ 72 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 73 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 73 Vuk Vuk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 71 appos _ _ 74 Karajich Karajich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 73 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 75 , , PUNCT , _ 77 punct _ _ 76 No. No. PROPN NNP Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing 77 nmod:unmarked _ _ 77 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 73 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 78 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 73 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 79 . . PUNCT . _ 62 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 80 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 39 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | among legend's wildest versions; Hahn and the Wallachian Trandafiru *obl*; schlangenkind *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **quote** *speech: other* | participle | | a similar Roumanian tale *not said here* | | | | by Benfey | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | the husband | a pumpkin | | Schott | | | tree rules | | 4 | **tell** | | the Snake Husband | | | | | | nom tale «communication 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/47/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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