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title: In the Albanian story of "The Serpent Child," (Hahn, No. 100), the h… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the Albanian story of "The Serpent Child," (Hahn, No. 100), the heroine, the wife of the man whom forty snake-sloughs encase, is assisted in her troubles by two subterranean beings whom she finds employed in baking. Who acts: forty snake sloughs, two subterranean beings, wife. A sentence of «Russ
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 212

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In the Albanian story of "The Serpent Child," (Hahn, No. 100), the heroine, the wife of the man whom forty snake-sloughs encase, is assisted in her troubles by two subterranean beings whom she finds employed in baking.

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**Who acts:** forty snake sloughs, two subterranean beings, wife · **What happens:** encase, assist, find, employ, trouble · **To what, where:** man, heroine, Albanian story, two subterranean beings, baking

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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 (forty snake sloughs, two subterranean beings, wife), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg22373:2598`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:34:212
# text = In the Albanian story of "The Serpent Child," (Hahn, No. 100), the heroine, the wife of the man whom forty snake-sloughs encase, is assisted in her troubles by two subterranean beings whom she finds employed in baking.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Albanian	Albanian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Hahn	Hahn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	heroine	heroine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	obj	_	_
28	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
29	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
31	sloughs	slough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	encase	encase	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	assisted	assist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	troubles	trouble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
41	subterranean	subterranean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl:agent	_	_
43	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	45	obj	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl:relcl	_	_
46	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	xcomp	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	baking	baking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encase** | present | forty snake sloughs | the man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **assist** | present · passive | two subterranean beings | the heroine |  | the Albanian story of the Serpent Child |  | in wife's troubles | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **find** | present | wife | two subterranean beings |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent whom=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **employ** | participle | two subterranean beings *not said here* |  |  | baking |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **trouble** |  | wife |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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