--- title: She possesses the usual magic apparatus by which enchantresses work… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: She possesses the usual magic apparatus by which enchantresses work their wonders; the Day and the Night (according to the following story) are among her servants, the entire animal world lies at her disposal. Who acts: Yaga, enchantresses, Day, entire animal world. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tale --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/83/) [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/) / 83 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 83 She possesses the usual magic apparatus by which enchantresses work their wonders; the Day and the Night (according to the following story) are among her servants, the entire animal world lies at her disposal. **Who acts:** Yaga, enchantresses, Day, entire animal world, parts · **What happens:** possess, work, accord, follow, be, lie · **To what, where:** usual magic apparatus, wonders, disposal 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 (Yaga, enchantresses, Day, entire animal world), 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:pg22373:28:83 # text = She possesses the usual magic apparatus by which enchantresses work their wonders; the Day and the Night (according to the following story) are among her servants, the entire animal world lies at her disposal. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 possesses possess VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 magic magic NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 apparatus apparatus NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 obl _ _ 9 enchantresses enchantress NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 wonders wonder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 according accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 case _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 20 fixed _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 amod _ _ 24 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 among among ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 entire entire ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 disposal disposal NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **possess** | present | Yaga | the usual magic apparatus | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot apparatus=Theme | | 2 | **work** | present | enchantresses | parts's wonders | | | | by the usual magic apparatus | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent wonder=Material | | 3 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | the Day and the Night | | | | | among Yaga's servants | tree rules | | 6 | **lie** | present | the entire animal world | | | Yaga's disposal | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at disposal=Location | | 7 | **wonder** | | parts *= part* | | | | | | nom wonder «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/84/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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