--- title: In a Little-Russian variant of this story, quoted by Afanasief,[226]… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: In a Little-Russian variant of this story, quoted by Afanasief,[226] (III. p. 137) a man, who often hears evil or misfortune (_likho_) spoken of, sets out in search of it. Who acts: man, story. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/89/) [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 III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/) / 89 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 89 In a Little-Russian variant of this story, quoted by Afanasief,\[226\] (III. p. 137) a man, who often hears evil or misfortune (\_likho\_) spoken of, sets out in search of it. **Who acts:** man, story · **What happens:** quote, hear, speak, set out, vary, search · **To what, where:** Russian variant, evil, likho, search · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (man, 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:pg22373:35:89 # text = In a Little-Russian variant of this story, quoted by Afanasief,[226] (III. p. 137) a man, who often hears evil or misfortune (_likho_) spoken of, sets out in search of it. 1 In in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 3 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Russian Russian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 variant variant NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 9 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 quoted quote VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Afanasief Afanasief PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 226 226 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 III III NUM CD NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card 13 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ 21 p. P. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 22 137 137 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 28 often often ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 hears hear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 30 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 misfortune misfortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 likho likho NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 38 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 sets set VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 42 out out ADP RP _ 41 compound:prt _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 search search NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **quote** *speech: other* | participle | | a Russian variant of this story *not said here* | | | | by Afanasief III | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hear** | present | a man | evil or misfortune and likho | | | | often *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer evil=Stimulus | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle | | likho *not said here* | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **set out** | present | a man *not said here* | | | search of search | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **vary** | | this story | | | | | | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent | | 6 | **search** | | | search | | | | | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/88/) - next →: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/90/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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