--- title: The leading idea of the story is the same, but the Snake or Koshchei… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: The leading idea of the story is the same, but the Snake or Koshchei has become a paltry wood-demon, the hero is a mere hunter, and the princely heroine has sunk to the low estate of a priest's daughter. Who acts: leading idea, Snake, hero. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/38/18/) [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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/38/) / 18 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 18 The leading idea of the story is the same, but the Snake or Koshchei has become a paltry wood-demon, the hero is a mere hunter, and the princely heroine has sunk to the low estate of a priest's daughter. **Who acts:** leading idea, Snake, hero · **What happens:** lead, be, become, sink · **To what, where:** paltry wood demon, mere hunter, princely heroine 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 (leading idea, Snake, hero), 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:pg22373:38:18 # text = The leading idea of the story is the same, but the Snake or Koshchei has become a paltry wood-demon, the hero is a mere hunter, and the princely heroine has sunk to the low estate of a priest's daughter. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 leading lead VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 amod _ _ 3 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Snake Snake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 Koshchei Koshchei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 become become VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 parataxis _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 paltry paltry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 20 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 demon demon NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 hero hero NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 mere mere ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 hunter hunter NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 princely princely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 heroine heroine NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 sunk sink VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 estate estate NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 44 's 's PART POS _ 43 case _ _ 45 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lead** | gerund | | | | | | | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | | 2 | **is** | present | the leading idea of the story | | | | | same *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **become** | present · perfect | the Snake or Koshchei | a paltry wood demon and a mere hunter | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | the hero | a mere hunter | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **sink** | present · perfect · passive | | the princely heroine | | | | to the low estate of a priest's daughter | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/38/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/38/19/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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