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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/) / 55 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 55 In "The Youth,"\[154\] a moujik, who has lost his way in a forest makes the rash promise to a man who enables him to cross a great river; "and that man (says the story) was a devil." **Who acts:** moujik, man · **What happens:** lose, make, enable, cross, say, be · **To what, where:** way, forest, rash promise, Youth, great river, story · **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 (moujik, 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:pg22373:28:55 # text = In "The Youth,"[154] a moujik, who has lost his way in a forest makes the rash promise to a man who enables him to cross a great river; "and that man (says the story) was a devil." 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Youth Youth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 154 154 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 moujik moujik NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 14 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 rash rash NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 enables enable VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 cross cross VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 39 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 det _ _ 40 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 41 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 acl:relcl _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 42 punct _ _ 46 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 devil devil NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 " " PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | present · perfect | a moujik | youth's way | | a forest | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | | 2 | **make** | present | a moujik | the rash promise | | the Youth | | to a man | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset promise=Product | | 3 | **enable** | present | a man | youth | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **cross** | to-infinitive | a man *not said here* | a great river | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | that man *not said here* | the story | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent story=Topic | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | that man | a devil | | | | | tree rules | 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 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/56/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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