--- title: A singular parallel to part of the Egyptian myth is offered by the H… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: A singular parallel to part of the Egyptian myth is offered by the Hottentot story in which the heart of a girl whom a lion has killed and eaten, is extracted from the lion, and placed in a calabash filled with milk. " Who acts: Hottentot story. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collectio --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/15/) [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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/) / 15 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 15 A singular parallel to part of the Egyptian myth is offered by the Hottentot story in which the heart of a girl whom a lion has killed and eaten, is extracted from the lion, and placed in a calabash filled with milk. " **Who acts:** Hottentot story · **What happens:** offer, kill, eat, extract, place, fill · **To what, where:** singular parallel, lion, heart, Hottentot story, calabash This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hottentot story), 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:pg22373:34:15 # text = A singular parallel to part of the Egyptian myth is offered by the Hottentot story in which the heart of a girl whom a lion has killed and eaten, is extracted from the lion, and placed in a calabash filled with milk. " 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 singular singular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 parallel parallel NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Egyptian Egyptian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 offered offer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 Hottentot Hottentot PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 obl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 obl _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 extracted extract VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl:relcl _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 placed place VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 calabash calabash NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 acl _ _ 43 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **offer** | present · passive | the Hottentot story | a singular parallel | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 2 | **kill** | present · perfect · passive | | a lion | | | | a girl *obl* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **eat** | participle | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **extract** | present · passive | | the heart of a girl | | the Hottentot story | | from the lion | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme from lion=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **place** | participle | the Hottentot story *not said here* | | | a calabash | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in calabash=Destination | | 6 | **fill** | participle | | a calabash *not said here* | | | | with milk | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with milk=Instrument | 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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/16/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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