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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/) / 92 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 92 Prince Ivan puts her in her own mortar, and proceeds to pound her therein, until she tells him where the fragments of his comrade are, and what he must do to restore them to life. **Who acts:** Prince Ivan, horse, fragments, Ivan · **What happens:** put, proceed, tell, be, do, restore · **To what, where:** horse, own mortar, pound, Ivan, fragments, life · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Prince Ivan, horse, fragments, Ivan), 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:pg22373:29:92 # text = Prince Ivan puts her in her own mortar, and proceeds to pound her therein, until she tells him where the fragments of his comrade are, and what he must do to restore them to life. 1 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Ivan Ivan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 mortar mortar NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 proceeds proceed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 pound pound NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 acl:relcl _ _ 15 therein therein ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 until until SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 iobj _ _ 21 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 27 advmod _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 fragments fragment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 comrade comrade NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 33 obj _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 restore restore VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 36 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | present | Prince Ivan | horse | | horse's own mortar | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in mortar=Destination | | 2 | **proceed** | present | | pound | | | | therein *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | horse | | Ivan | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **does** | present | the fragments of Ivan's comrade | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **do** | must | Ivan | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 6 | **restore** | to-infinitive | Ivan *not said here* | fragments *= fragment* | life | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to life=Recipient | 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 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/91/) - next →: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/93/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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