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title: Thus in the "Moujik and Anastasia Adovna,"[152] it is no longer a ki… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus in the "Moujik and Anastasia Adovna,"[152] it is no longer a king of the waters, but a devil's imp,[153] who bargains with the thirsting father for his child, and the swan-maiden whose shift the devoted youth steals bears the name of Adovna, the daughter of Ad or Hades. Who acts: Moujik Adovna,
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 54

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Thus in the "Moujik and Anastasia Adovna,"\[152\] it is no longer a king of the waters, but a devil's imp,\[153\] who bargains with the thirsting father for his child, and the swan-maiden whose shift the devoted youth steals bears the name of Adovna, the daughter of Ad or Hades.

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**Who acts:** Moujik Adovna, shift · **What happens:** be, bargain, thirst, steal, name · **To what, where:** king, bears, Adovna

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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 (Moujik Adovna, shift), 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:pg22373:28:54
# text = Thus in the "Moujik and Anastasia Adovna,"[152] it is no longer a king of the waters, but a devil's imp,[153] who bargains with the thirsting father for his child, and the swan-maiden whose shift the devoted youth steals bears the name of Adovna, the daughter of Ad or Hades.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Moujik	Moujik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Anastasia	Anastasia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	Adovna	Adovna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	152	152	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	no	no	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	imp	imp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	153	153	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	bargains	bargain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	parataxis	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	thirsting	thirst	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	amod	_	_
38	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
45	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
48	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	shift	shift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	devoted	devoted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
53	steals	steal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	conj	_	_
54	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obj	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	Adovna	Adovna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	appos	_	_
62	of	of	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	Ad	Ad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	nmod	_	_
64	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
65	Hades	Hade	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	63	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Moujik Adovna | a king but a devil's imp  153 |  |  |  | of the waters; long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bargain** | present |  |  |  |  |  | with the thirsting father for father's child | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with father=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **thirst** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **be** |  | the Moujik Adovna *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **steal** | present | shift | bears |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent bear=Beneficiary name=Theme |
| 6 | **name** |  |  | Adovna |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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