--- title: During his absence they attempt to escape being carried through the… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: During his absence they attempt to escape being carried through the air on the back of a friendly falcon, but the King-Bear sees them, "strikes his head against the earth, and burns the falcon's wings." Who acts: twins, King Bear, King. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/37/) [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/) / 37 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 37 During his absence they attempt to escape being carried through the air on the back of a friendly falcon, but the King-Bear sees them, "strikes his head against the earth, and burns the falcon's wings." **Who acts:** twins, King Bear, King · **What happens:** attempt, escape, carry, see, strike, burn · **To what, where:** air, twins, head, wings · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (twins, King Bear, King), 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:pg22373:28:37 # text = During his absence they attempt to escape being carried through the air on the back of a friendly falcon, but the King-Bear sees them, "strikes his head against the earth, and burns the falcon's wings." 1 During during ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 absence absence NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 attempt attempt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 escape escape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 xcomp _ _ 10 through through ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 falcon falcon NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 Bear Bear PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 csubj _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 strikes strike VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 against against ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 burns burn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 falcon falcon NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 41 's 's PART POS _ 40 case _ _ 42 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **attempt** | present | twins *= twin* | | | | during King's absence | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **escape** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | twins *= twin* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **carry** | gerund · passive | twins *= twin* *not said here* | | | the air on the back of a friendly falcon | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP» | | 4 | **see** | present | the King Bear | twins *= twin* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 5 | **strike** *in a quote* | present | | King's head | | | | against the earth | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent head=Instrument against earth=Patient | | 6 | **burn** *in a quote* | present | twins *= twin* *not said here* | the falcon's wings | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wing=Theme | | 7 | **absent** | | King | | | | | | nom absence «state 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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/38/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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