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description: From these male personifications of evil--from the Snake, Koshchei, and the Water King--we will now turn to their corresponding female forms. Who acts: Water King, personifications. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, wi
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 70

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From these male personifications of evil--from the Snake, Koshchei, and the Water King--we will now turn to their corresponding female forms.

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**Who acts:** Water King, personifications · **What happens:** turn, correspond · **To what, where:** female forms

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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 (Water King, personifications), 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:pg22373:28:70
# text = From these male personifications of evil--from the Snake, Koshchei, and the Water King--we will now turn to their corresponding female forms.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	personifications	personification	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Snake	Snake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	corresponding	correspond	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
26	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | future | the Water King |  |  |  | now |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **correspond** | gerund | personifications *= personification* | female forms |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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