--- title: In the course of time the King-Bear arrives to claim them, finds out… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: In the course of time the King-Bear arrives to claim them, finds out their hiding-place, digs them up, and carries them off on his back to a distant region where no man lives. Who acts: King, man. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGIC --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/36/) [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/) / 36 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 36 In the course of time the King-Bear arrives to claim them, finds out their hiding-place, digs them up, and carries them off on his back to a distant region where no man lives. **Who acts:** King, man · **What happens:** arrive, claim, find out, dig up, carry off, live · **To what, where:** time, twins, hiding place, course, back 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, man), 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:pg22373:28:36 # text = In the course of time the King-Bear arrives to claim them, finds out their hiding-place, digs them up, and carries them off on his back to a distant region where no man lives. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Bear Bear PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 arrives arrive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 claim claim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 15 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 out out ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 18 hiding hiding NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 digs dig VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 off off ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 distant distant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 region region NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 37 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 40 advmod _ _ 38 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 39 det _ _ 39 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arrive** | present | the King and Bear | time *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **claim** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the King and Bear *not said here* | twins *= twin* | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic | | 3 | **find out** | present | | twins's hiding place | | the course of time | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | | 4 | **dig up** | present | | twins *= twin* | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **carry off** | present | | twins *= twin* | | King's back | | to a distant region | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to region=Destination | | 6 | **live** | present | no man | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/37/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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