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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/38/) / 1 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 1 In one of the Wallachian tales\[260\] the hero is assisted in his search after the dragon-stolen heroine by three supernatural females--the holy Mothers Friday, Wednesday, and Sunday. **Who acts:** three supernatural females, his · **What happens:** assist, steal, search · **To what, where:** hero, search This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three supernatural females, his), 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:pg22373:38:1 # text = In one of the Wallachian tales[260] the hero is assisted in his search after the dragon-stolen heroine by three supernatural females--the holy Mothers Friday, Wednesday, and Sunday. 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 Wallachian Wallachian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 260 260 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 hero hero NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 assisted assist VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 search search NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 after after ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 stolen steal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 22 heroine heroine NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 25 supernatural supernatural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 females female NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 -- -- PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 29 holy holy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 Mothers Mothers PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 Friday Friday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 Wednesday Wednesday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **assist** | present · passive | three supernatural females | the hero | | his search after the stolen heroine | sunday | in one of the Wallachian tales | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary | | 2 | **steal** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **search** | | his *= he* | | | | after the stolen heroine | | nom search «act transitive»: poss=agent after=obl | 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: [Chapter III. 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