--- title: His three sisters go to look for him, and each of them in turn finds… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: His three sisters go to look for him, and each of them in turn finds out where he is and attempts to carry him off, after sending the Baba Yaga to sleep and smearing her eyelids with pitch. Who acts: three sisters, each, story. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Fol --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/58/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/) / 58 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 58 His three sisters go to look for him, and each of them in turn finds out where he is and attempts to carry him off, after sending the Baba Yaga to sleep and smearing her eyelids with pitch. **Who acts:** three sisters, each, story · **What happens:** go, look, find out, be, attempt, carry off · **To what, where:** story, Baba Yaga, eyelids · **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 (three sisters, each, story), 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:pg22373:32:58 # text = His three sisters go to look for him, and each of them in turn finds out where he is and attempts to carry him off, after sending the Baba Yaga to sleep and smearing her eyelids with pitch. 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 11 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 16 nsubj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nmod _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 turn turn NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 16 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 17 out out ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 20 advmod _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 attempts attempt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 off off ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 after after SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 29 sending send VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 Baba Baba PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 Yaga Yaga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 smearing smear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 conj _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 eyelids eyelid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 pitch pitch NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | story's three sisters | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | story's three sisters *not said here* | | | | | for story | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme | | 3 | **find out** | present | each | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **be** | present | story | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **attempt** | present | each *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **carry off** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | each *not said here* | story | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 7 | **send** | gerund | each *not said here* | the Baba Yaga | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yaga=Theme | | 8 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | each *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **smear** | gerund | each *not said here* | variant's eyelids | | | | with pitch | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent eyelid=Destination with pitch=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 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/59/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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