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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/) / 103 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 103 He often went to the top of a high mountain, and thence gazed at the palace in which he used to live, and he could see that it was all eaten away; nothing but the bare walls remained! **Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** go, gaze, use, live, see, eat away · **To what, where:** nothing, top, palace, bare walls · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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:pg22373:32:103 # text = He often went to the top of a high mountain, and thence gazed at the palace in which he used to live, and he could see that it was all eaten away; nothing but the bare walls remained! 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 thence thence ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 gazed gaze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 obl _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 32 all all ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 ccomp _ _ 34 away away ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 36 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 3 obl _ _ 37 but but CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 conj _ _ 41 remained remain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | prince | nothing | | the top of a high mountain | | often *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to top=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **gaze** | participle | prince *not said here* | | | | | at the palace; thence *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at palace=Theme | | 3 | **use** | past | prince | | | the palace | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **live** | to-infinitive | prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **see** | could | prince | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **eat away** | past · passive | | palace | | | | all, away *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 7 | **remain** | participle | | the bare walls *not said here* | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/102/) - next →: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/104/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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