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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/) / 60 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 60 The youngest sister, however, succeeds in rescuing her brother, having taken the precaution of propitiating with butter the cat Jeremiah, "who was telling the boy stories and singing him songs." **Who acts:** youngest sister, precaution · **What happens:** succeed, rescue, have, take, propitiate, tell · **To what, where:** brother, precaution, cat, boy stories, songs, story · **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 (youngest sister, precaution), 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:pg22373:32:60 # text = The youngest sister, however, succeeds in rescuing her brother, having taken the precaution of propitiating with butter the cat Jeremiah, "who was telling the boy stories and singing him songs." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 however however ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 succeeds succeed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 in in SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 rescuing rescue VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 14 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 xcomp _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 precaution precaution NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 of of SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 propitiating propitiate VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 23 Jeremiah Jeremiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ _ 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **succeed** | present | the youngest sister | | | | | however *property* | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **rescue** | gerund | the youngest sister *not said here* | variant's brother | | | | | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | | 3 | **have** | gerund | the youngest sister *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **take** | participle | the youngest sister *not said here* | the precaution | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precaution=Theme | | 5 | **propitiate** | gerund | the precaution *not said here* | the cat | | | | with butter | tree rules | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past · progressive | | the boy stories | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | | 7 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | gerund | | songs | story | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary song=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 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/61/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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