--- title: The _Norka-Zvyer'_ (Norka-Beast) of this story is a fabulous creatur… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: The _Norka-Zvyer'_ (Norka-Beast) of this story is a fabulous creature, but zoologically the name of Norka (from _nora_ = a hole) belongs to the Otter. Who acts: Norka Zvyer, name. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/33/98/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/33/) / 98 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 98 The \_Norka-Zvyer'\_ (Norka-Beast) of this story is a fabulous creature, but zoologically the name of Norka (from \_nora\_ = a hole) belongs to the Otter. **Who acts:** Norka Zvyer, name · **What happens:** be, belong, name · **To what, where:** fabulous creature, Norka 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 (Norka Zvyer, name), 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:pg22373:33:98 # text = The _Norka-Zvyer'_ (Norka-Beast) of this story is a fabulous creature, but zoologically the name of Norka (from _nora_ = a hole) belongs to the Otter. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 _ _ PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Norka Norka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Zvyer Zvyer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ' 's PART POS _ 5 case _ SpaceAfter=No 7 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 5 punct _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Norka Norka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Beast Beast PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 det _ _ 15 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 fabulous fabulous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 zoologically zoologically ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Norka Norka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 nora nora NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 31 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 30 punct _ _ 32 = = SYM SYM _ 34 punct _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 36 belongs belong VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Otter Otter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the Norka Zvyer of this story | a fabulous creature | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **belong** | present | the name of Norka | | | | | to the Otter | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **name** | | | Norka | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/33/97/) - next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/33/99/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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