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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 35

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In vain does he attempt to save the twins from their impending fate, by concealing them in a secret abode constructed for that purpose underground.

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**Who acts:** King, twins · **What happens:** attempt, save, conceal, construct, fate · **To what, where:** vain, twins, impending fate, secret abode

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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 (King, twins), 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:pg22373:28:35
# text = In vain does he attempt to save the twins from their impending fate, by concealing them in a secret abode constructed for that purpose underground.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	attempt	attempt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	twins	twin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	impending	impending	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	concealing	conceal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	abode	abode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	constructed	construct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	underground	underground	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attempt** | present · do-support | King |  |  | vain |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **save** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | the twins |  | twins's impending fate |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent twin=Theme from fate=Source |
| 3 | **conceal** | gerund | King *not said here* | twins *= twin* |  | a secret abode |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient in abode=Location |
| 4 | **construct** | participle |  | a secret abode *not said here* |  |  |  | for that purpose; underground *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for purpose=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **fate** |  | twins *= twin* |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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