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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 71

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But he escapes, and eventually "he slays all the three heroes, and flings their bodies on the plain for wild beasts to devour."

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**Who acts:** Ivan · **What happens:** escape, slay, fling, devour · **To what, where:** three heroes, bodies, plain

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan), 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:pg22373:29:71
# text = But he escapes, and eventually "he slays all the three heroes, and flings their bodies on the plain for wild beasts to devour."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	escapes	escape	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	slays	slay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	flings	fling	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	devour	devour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **escape** | present | Ivan |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **slay** *in a quote* | present | Ivan | all three heroes |  |  |  | eventually *property* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=Patient |
| 3 | **fling** *in a quote* | present | Ivan *not said here* | heroes's bodies |  | the plain |  | for wild beasts | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent body=Theme on plain=Destination |
| 4 | **devour** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Ivan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: 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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