--- title: At last he is released by his son, who has forced the devil to free… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: At last he is released by his son, who has forced the devil to free him after several adventures--one of them being a fight with the evil spirit in the shape of a three-headed snake. Who acts: son, one. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTH --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/60/) [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/) / 60 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 60 At last he is released by his son, who has forced the devil to free him after several adventures--one of them being a fight with the evil spirit in the shape of a three-headed snake. **Who acts:** son, one · **What happens:** release, force, be · **To what, where:** last, son, fight 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 (son, one), 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:pg22373:28:60 # text = At last he is released by his son, who has forced the devil to free him after several adventures--one of them being a fight with the evil spirit in the shape of a three-headed snake. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 last last NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 released release VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 forced force VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 devil devil NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 18 after after ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 adventures adventure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 -- -- PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nsubj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nmod _ _ 25 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 acl:relcl _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 37 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 headed headed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **release** | present · passive | last's son | last | | last | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer subject=Source | | 2 | **force** | present · perfect · passive | | last's son | | | after several adventures | free *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | gerund | one of adventures | a fight | | | | with the evil spirit in the shape of a headed snake | 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 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/61/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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