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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 1

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To the hero's adventures while with the Water King, and while escaping from him, an important parallel is offered by the end of the already mentioned (at p. 92) Indian story of Sringabhuja.

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**Who acts:** end, hero · **What happens:** escape, offer, mention, adventure · **To what, where:** important parallel, p.

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end, hero), 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:pg22373:28:1
# text = To the hero's adventures while with the Water King, and while escaping from him, an important parallel is offered by the end of the already mentioned (at p. 92) Indian story of Sringabhuja.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	escaping	escape	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	parallel	parallel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
28	already	already	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	amod	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	92	92	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
35	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Sringabhuja	Sringabhuja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **escape** | gerund | the end of the mentioned Indian story of Sringabhuja *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from King | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from he=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **offer** | present · passive | the end of the mentioned Indian story of Sringabhuja | a important parallel |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **mention** *speech: other* | participle |  | p. |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent p.=Topic |
| 4 | **adventure** |  | the hero |  |  |  |  | with the Water King | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |

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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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