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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/) / 129 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 129 But Marya persuaded her father, who acted as the butcher, to give her a part of the cow's entrails, which she buried near the threshold; and from it there sprang a bush covered with berries, and haunted by birds which sang "songs royal and rustic." **Who acts:** Marya, father, birds · **What happens:** persuade, act, give, bury, spring, cover · **To what, where:** father, part, Marya, entrails, threshold, bush This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Marya, father, birds), 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:pg22373:35:129 # text = But Marya persuaded her father, who acted as the butcher, to give her a part of the cow's entrails, which she buried near the threshold; and from it there sprang a bush covered with berries, and haunted by birds which sang "songs royal and rustic." 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Marya Marya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 persuaded persuade VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 acted act VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 butcher butcher NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 15 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 entrails entrail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 obj _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 buried bury VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 27 near near ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 threshold threshold NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ _ 34 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ _ 35 sprang spring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 bush bush NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 acl _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 berries berry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 haunted haunt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 conj _ _ 44 by by ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ _ 46 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 47 nsubj _ _ 47 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 acl:relcl _ _ 48 " " PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obl _ _ 50 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 xcomp _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 rustic rustic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **persuade** | past | Marya | Marya's father | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient | | 2 | **act** | past | Marya's father | | | | | as the butcher | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as butcher=Attribute | | 3 | **give** | to-infinitive | Marya *not said here* | a part of the cow's entrails | Marya | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient part=Theme | | 4 | **bury** | past | Marya | the cow's entrails | | the threshold | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme near threshold=Destination | | 5 | **spring** | past | | a bush | | threshold; there | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location bush=Theme | | 6 | **cover** | participle | | a bush *not said here* | | | | with berries | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with berry=Theme | | 7 | **haunt** | participle | | | | | | by birds | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | birds | songs | | | | royal *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/128/) - next →: [sentence 130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/130/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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