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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 57

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In one of the stories of this class,\[156\] the father is a hunter who is perishing with cold one night, and who makes the usual promise as the condition of his being allowed to warm himself at a fire guarded by a devil.

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**Who acts:** one, hunter, condition, father · **What happens:** be, perish, make, allow, warm, guard · **To what, where:** hunter, usual promise, father, fire

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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 (one, hunter, condition, father), 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:pg22373:28:57
# text = In one of the stories of this class,[156] the father is a hunter who is perishing with cold one night, and who makes the usual promise as the condition of his being allowed to warm himself at a fire guarded by a devil.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	156	156	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	perishing	perish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl:relcl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	warm	warm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	40	obj	_	_
42	at	at	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
45	guarded	guard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl	_	_
46	by	by	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | one of the stories of this class | a hunter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **perish** | present · progressive | a hunter |  |  |  | night |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | present | a hunter | the usual promise |  |  |  | as the condition | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product |
| 4 | **allow** | gerund · passive | the condition *not said here* | father |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **warm** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | father *not said here* | father |  | a fire |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 6 | **guard** | participle |  | a fire *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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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