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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 136

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In Schott, No. 1 and Vuk Karajich, No. 5, the three sisters are carried off by Dragons, which their subsequently-born brother kills.

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**Who acts:** Dragons, born brother · **What happens:** carry off, bear, kill · **To what, where:** three sisters, Schott, Dragons

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dragons, born brother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg22373:33:136
# text = In Schott, No. 1 and Vuk Karajich, No. 5, the three sisters are carried off by Dragons, which their subsequently-born brother kills.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Schott	Schott	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Vuk	Vuk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	Karajich	Karajich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	No.	No.	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
24	subsequently	subsequently	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	kills	kill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry off** | present · passive | Dragons | the three sisters |  | Schott and Vuk |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Value in schott=Location |
| 2 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | subsequently *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **kill** | present | Dragons's born brother | Dragons |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |

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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.

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**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.

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