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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 40

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At last they are rescued by a bull-calf, which succeeds in baffling all the King-Bear's efforts to recover them.

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**Who acts:** bull calf · **What happens:** rescue, succeed, baffle, recover · **To what, where:** last, efforts, twins

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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 (bull calf), 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:pg22373:28:40
# text = At last they are rescued by a bull-calf, which succeeds in baffling all the King-Bear's efforts to recover them.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	rescued	rescue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	succeeds	succeed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	baffling	baffle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	recover	recover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rescue** | present · passive | a bull calf | last |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **succeed** | present | a bull calf |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **baffle** | gerund | a bull calf *not said here* | the King Bear's efforts |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus effort=Experiencer |
| 4 | **recover** | to-infinitive | a bull calf *not said here* | twins *= twin* |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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