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description: Then she flings down three golden apples, which the "marriage-proposers" attempt to catch, but "three lightnings flash from the sky" and kill the suitor and his friends. Who acts: Sister, three golden apples, three lightnings. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 51

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Then she flings down three golden apples, which the "marriage-proposers" attempt to catch, but "three lightnings flash from the sky" and kill the suitor and his friends.

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**Who acts:** Sister, three golden apples, three lightnings · **What happens:** fling down, attempt, catch, flash, kill · **To what, where:** three golden apples, sky, suitor · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Sister, three golden apples, three lightnings), 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:pg22373:33:51
# text = Then she flings down three golden apples, which the "marriage-proposers" attempt to catch, but "three lightnings flash from the sky" and kill the suitor and his friends.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flings	fling	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	proposers	proposer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	lightnings	lightning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	flash	flash	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	suitor	suitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fling down** | present | Sister | three golden apples |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **attempt** |  | three golden apples |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **catch** | to-infinitive | Sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **flash** *in a quote* | present | three lightnings |  |  | the sky |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **kill** | infinitive | three lightnings *not said here* | the suitor and song's friends |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suitor=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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