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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 44

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He hides his children in (or upon) a pillar, hoping to conceal them from a devouring bear, whose fur is of iron.

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**Who acts:** king, fur · **What happens:** hide, hope, conceal, devour, be · **To what, where:** children, pillar, devouring bear

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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 (king, fur), 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:pg22373:34:44
# text = He hides his children in (or upon) a pillar, hoping to conceal them from a devouring bear, whose fur is of iron.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	conceal	conceal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	devouring	devour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | king | king's children |  | a pillar |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Patient in pillar=Location |
| 2 | **hope** | gerund | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **conceal** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | children *= child* |  | a devouring bear and iron |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Patient from bear=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **devour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | iron's fur |  |  |  |  | of iron | tree rules |

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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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