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description: But the head always grows again, until at last the younger of the ladies gives him a sign to split in half the head he has just chopped off. Who acts: head, Indrasena. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, with its depende
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 88

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But the head always grows again, until at last the younger of the ladies gives him a sign to split in half the head he has just chopped off.

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**Who acts:** head, Indrasena · **What happens:** grow, give, split, chop off · **To what, where:** sign, Indrasena, head

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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 (head, Indrasena), 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:pg22373:33:88
# text = But the head always grows again, until at last the younger of the ladies gives him a sign to split in half the head he has just chopped off.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	advcl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
16	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	split	split	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	25	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	just	just	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	chopped	chop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	off	off	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | the head |  |  |  | again | always *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | present |  | a sign | Indrasena |  |  | of the ladies | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sign=Theme |
| 3 | **split** | to-infinitive |  | a sign *not said here* |  | half head |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **chop off** | present · perfect | Indrasena | half head *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |

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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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