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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/31/) / 90 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 90 While she was thus engaged the forest began to roar, and out from it came Verlioka, "of vast stature, one-eyed, crook-nosed, bristly-headed, with tangled beard and moustaches half an ell long, and with a wooden boot on his one foot, supporting himself on a crutch, and giving vent to a terrible laughter." **Who acts:** forest · **What happens:** engage, begin, roar, come, nose, head · **To what, where:** child, Verlioka, crutch, vent, terrible laughter · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forest), 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:pg22373:31:90 # text = While she was thus engaged the forest began to roar, and out from it came Verlioka, "of vast stature, one-eyed, crook-nosed, bristly-headed, with tangled beard and moustaches half an ell long, and with a wooden boot on his one foot, supporting himself on a crutch, and giving vent to a terrible laughter." 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 4 thus thus ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 engaged engage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 advcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 roar roar VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 out out ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 17 Verlioka Verlioka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 vast vast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 stature stature NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 eyed eyed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 crook crook NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 nosed nose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 bristly bristly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 headed head VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 tangled tangle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 amod _ _ 38 beard beard NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 moustaches moustache NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 conj _ _ 41 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 43 det:predet _ _ 42 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 ell ell NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 44 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 47 with with ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 boot boot NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 51 on on ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 52 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 54 nmod:poss _ _ 53 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 54 nummod _ _ 54 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 56 supporting support VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 57 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 56 obj _ _ 58 on on ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 59 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 crutch crutch NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 62 and and CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 63 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 56 conj _ _ 64 vent vent NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obj _ _ 65 to to ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 66 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 67 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 68 amod _ _ 68 laughter laughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 69 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 70 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **engage** | past · passive | | child | | | | thus *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer forest=Result | | 2 | **begin** | past | | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **roar** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **come** | past | forest | | | | | of vast stature and a wooden boot on Verlioka's one foot; out *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of stature=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **nose** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **head** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | with tangled beard and moustaches | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **tangle** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **support** *in a quote* | gerund | forest *not said here* | Verlioka | | a crutch | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | | 9 | **give** *in a quote* | gerund | forest *not said here* | vent | a terrible laughter | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent vent=Theme to laughter=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 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/31/89/) - next →: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/31/91/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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