--- title: After a time it came to life and began destroying all it found, etc.… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: After a time it came to life and began destroying all it found, etc. An interesting explanation of the stories of this class in which they are treated as nature-myths, is given by A. de Gubernatis in his "Zoological Mythology," chap. i. sect. Who acts: wolf, A., stories. A sentence of «Russian Fairy --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/50/) [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/) / 50 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 50 After a time it came to life and began destroying all it found, etc. An interesting explanation of the stories of this class in which they are treated as nature-myths, is given by A. de Gubernatis in his "Zoological Mythology," chap. i. sect. **Who acts:** wolf, A., stories · **What happens:** come, begin, destroy, find, treat, give · **To what, where:** life, children, class, Zoological Mythology 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 (wolf, A., stories), 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:pg22373:34:50 # text = After a time it came to life and began destroying all it found, etc. An interesting explanation of the stories of this class in which they are treated as nature-myths, is given by A. de Gubernatis in his "Zoological Mythology," chap. i. sect. 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 destroying destroy VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 xcomp _ _ 11 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 13 det:predet _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 etc. etc. NOUN FW Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 interesting interesting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 explanation explanation NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 det _ _ 24 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 obl _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 treated treat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl:relcl _ _ 30 as as ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 myths myth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 37 by by ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 A. A. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 39 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 flat _ _ 40 Gubernatis Gubernatis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 flat _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 43 " " PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 Zoological Zoological PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 Mythology mythology NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 " " PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ _ 48 chap chap NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 45 punct _ _ 50 i. i. X FW Foreign=Yes 51 compound _ _ 51 sect sect NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | wolf | | | life | time | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **begin** | past | wolf *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **destroy** | gerund | wolf *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **find** | past | wolf | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **treat** | present · passive | | children *= child* | | this class | | as nature myths | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as myth=Attribute | | 6 | **give** | present · passive | A. | | | king's Zoological Mythology and i. sect | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **explain** | | the stories of this class | | | | | | nom explanation «communication intransitive»: of=agent | 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 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/51/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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