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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 50

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In the Skazkas we find frequent mention of beauteous maidens who usually live beneath the wave, but who can transform themselves into birds and fly wherever they please.

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**Who acts:** we, beauteous maidens · **What happens:** find, live, transform, fly, mention · **To what, where:** frequent mention, Skazkas, wave, maidens, beauteous maidens

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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 (we, beauteous maidens), 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:pg22373:26:50
# text = In the Skazkas we find frequent mention of beauteous maidens who usually live beneath the wave, but who can transform themselves into birds and fly wherever they please.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Skazkas	Skazkas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mention	mention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	beauteous	beauteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	transform	transform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
22	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | we | frequent mention of beauteous maidens |  | the Skazkas |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mention=Topic |
| 2 | **live** | present | beauteous maidens |  |  | the wave |  | usually *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath wave=Location |
| 3 | **transform** | can |  | maidens *= maiden* |  |  |  | into birds *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient into bird=Result |
| 4 | **fly** | present | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **mention** |  |  | beauteous maidens |  |  |  |  | nom mention «communication 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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