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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/33/) / 43 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 43 272) quotes a Little-Russian Skazka in which a man, who is seeking "the Isle in which there is no death," meets with various personages like those with whom the Prince at first wished to stay on his journey, and at last takes up his abode with the moon. **Who acts:** 272, man, death, Prince · **What happens:** quote, seek, be, meet, wish, stay · **To what, where:** Russian Skazka, Isle, journey, abode, last · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (272, man, death, 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:pg22373:33:43 # text = 272) quotes a Little-Russian Skazka in which a man, who is seeking "the Isle in which there is no death," meets with various personages like those with whom the Prince at first wished to stay on his journey, and at last takes up his abode with the moon. 1 272 272 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 1 punct _ _ 3 quotes quote VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 Russian Russian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 Skazka Skazka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 seeking seek VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 acl _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Isle Isle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 obl _ _ 22 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 23 expl _ _ 23 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 24 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 25 det _ _ 25 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 28 meets meet VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 various various ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 personages personage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 32 like like ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 31 nmod _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nmod _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 38 at at SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 40 advmod _ _ 40 wished wish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 advcl _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ _ 43 on on ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 48 at at ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 obl _ _ 50 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 51 up up ADP RP _ 50 compound:prt _ _ 52 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 53 nmod:poss _ _ 53 abode abode NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obj _ _ 54 with with ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **quote** *speech: other* | present | 272 | a Russian Skazka | | | | in a man | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skazka=Topic | | 2 | **seek** | present · progressive | a man | the Isle | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **be** *in a quote* | present | no death | | | the Isle; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | | 4 | **meet** | present | 272 *not said here* | | | | | with various personages like those | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with personage=Co-Agent | | 5 | **wish** | participle | 272 *not said here* | | | | | first *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **stay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | 272 *not said here* | | | Prince's journey | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on journey=Location | | 7 | **take up** | present | 272 *not said here* | Prince's abode | | last | | with the moon | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent abode=Theme at last=Asset | | 8 | **journey** | | Prince | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/33/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/33/44/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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