--- title: 4, 5, 54, and 68) in which a child is promised to a Dervish, a _Drak… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: 4, 5, 54, and 68) in which a child is promised to a Dervish, a _Drakos_, the Devil, and a Demon--and the Gaelic tales of "The Battle of the Birds" and "The Sea-maiden," (Campbell, Nos. Who acts: Battle. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTH --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/27/161/) [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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/27/) / 161 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 161 4, 5, 54, and 68) in which a child is promised to a Dervish, a \_Drakos\_, the Devil, and a Demon--and the Gaelic tales of "The Battle of the Birds" and "The Sea-maiden," (Campbell, Nos. **Who acts:** Battle · **What happens:** promise, tell · **To what, where:** child, Dervish · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Battle), 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:pg22373:27:161 # text = 4, 5, 54, and 68) in which a child is promised to a Dervish, a _Drakos_, the Devil, and a Demon--and the Gaelic tales of "The Battle of the Birds" and "The Sea-maiden," (Campbell, Nos. 1 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 54 54 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 68 68 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 obl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 promised promise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Dervish Dervish PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 _ _ PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Drakos Drakos PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Devil Devil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Demon demon NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 31 -- -- PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 Gaelic gaelic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 appos _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Battle Battle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 Birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 45 " " PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 47 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 maiden maiden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 52 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 Campbell Campbell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 55 Nos Nos PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present · passive | | a child | a Dervish and a Drakos and the Devil | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to dervish=Goal | | 2 | **tell** | | the Battle of the Birds | | | | | | 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 160](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/27/160/) - next →: [sentence 162](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/27/162/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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