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description: She gives it to "the bird Pelekan (no mere Pelican, but a magic fowl with a very long and slim neck), which puts its head down the youth's throat, and restores his heart to its right place." Who acts: mother, magic fowl. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore»
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 12

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She gives it to "the bird Pelekan (no mere Pelican, but a magic fowl with a very long and slim neck), which puts its head down the youth's throat, and restores his heart to its right place."

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**Who acts:** mother, magic fowl · **What happens:** give, put, restore · **To what, where:** heart, head, right place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (mother, magic fowl), 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:pg22373:38:12
# text = She gives it to "the bird Pelekan (no mere Pelican, but a magic fowl with a very long and slim neck), which puts its head down the youth's throat, and restores his heart to its right place."
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Pelekan	Pelekan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	mere	mere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	Pelican	Pelican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fowl	fowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	slim	slim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	down	down	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	restores	restore	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | mother | heart |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** *in a quote* | present | a magic fowl with a long neck | heart's head |  |  |  | down the youth's throat | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal |
| 3 | **restore** *in a quote* | present |  | youth's heart | heart's right place |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent heart=Theme to place=Recipient |

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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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