--- title: He does so, and is pursued by the invited guest, from whom he escape… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: He does so, and is pursued by the invited guest, from whom he escapes only by throwing behind him earth, water, thorns, and lastly fire, with all of which he has been provided by his love. Who acts: help, invited guest, love. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk- --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/11/) [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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/) / 11 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 11 He does so, and is pursued by the invited guest, from whom he escapes only by throwing behind him earth, water, thorns, and lastly fire, with all of which he has been provided by his love. **Who acts:** help, invited guest, love · **What happens:** do, pursue, invite, escape, throw, provide · **To what, where:** lastly fire, earth, help 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 (help, invited guest, love), 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:pg22373:28:11 # text = He does so, and is pursued by the invited guest, from whom he escapes only by throwing behind him earth, water, thorns, and lastly fire, with all of which he has been provided by his love. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 pursued pursue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 invited invite VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 11 guest guest NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 obl _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 escapes escape VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 17 only only ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 by by SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 throwing throw VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 20 behind behind ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 22 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 thorns thorn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 lastly lastly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 16 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 obl _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 provided provide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 parataxis _ _ 40 by by ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | help | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **pursue** | present · passive | the invited guest | | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **invite** | participle | | | | | | | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **escape** | present | help | lastly fire | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme all=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **throw** | gerund | help *not said here* | earth and water and thorns | | | | behind help | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent earth=Theme behind he=Destination | | 6 | **provide** | present · perfect · passive | help's love | help | | | | | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Theme | | 7 | **love** | | help | | | | | | nom love «feeling transitive»: 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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/12/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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