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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/) / 54 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 54 In a White-Russian variant quoted by Afanasief (i. p. 118), the place of the witch's daughter is filled by her son, who had been in the habit of alluring to her den by gifts of toys, and there devouring, the children from the adjacent villages. **Who acts:** son, habit · **What happens:** quote, fill, be, allure, devour, gift · **To what, where:** Russian variant, habit, children, adjacent villages, toys 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 (son, habit), 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:pg22373:32:54 # text = In a White-Russian variant quoted by Afanasief (i. p. 118), the place of the witch's daughter is filled by her son, who had been in the habit of alluring to her den by gifts of toys, and there devouring, the children from the adjacent villages. 1 In in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 3 White white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Russian Russian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 variant variant NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 7 quoted quote VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Afanasief Afanasief PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl:agent _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 i. i. X FW Foreign=Yes 12 flat:foreign _ _ 12 p. P. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 13 118 118 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 31 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 34 cop _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 habit habit NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 35 of of SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 36 alluring allure VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 acl _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 by by ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 gifts gift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 toys toy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 47 expl _ _ 47 devouring devour VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obl _ _ 51 from from ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 53 adjacent adjacent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 villages village NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **quote** *speech: other* | participle | | a Russian variant *not said here* | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **fill** | present · passive | variant's son | | | a Russian variant | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **is** | past · perfect | variant's son | | | the habit | | | tree rules | | 4 | **allure** | gerund | the habit *not said here* | | | | | to variant's den *result*; by gifts of toys | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to den=Result | | 5 | **devour** | gerund | variant's son *not said here* | the children | | the adjacent villages; there | | | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **gift** | | | toys | | | | | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/55/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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